disk harrow

American  

noun

1. a harrow having a number of sharp-edged, concave disks set at such an angle that as the harrow is drawn along the ground they turn the soil, pulverize it, and destroy weeds.

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Etymology

Origin of disk harrow

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Among the other machines: � A grubber that tears up trees and underbrush, grinds them up, then works the mulch deep into the earth behind it with a disk harrow.

From Time Magazine Archive

The disk harrow is also used extensively throughout the summer in maintaining a proper mulch.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas

There is temptation to carry the substitution of the disk harrow for the breaking-plow too far.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

When a soil is thin, there may be no better preparatory crop than the cowpea, which will not make too rank a growth in the north to prevent its handling with a weighted disk harrow.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva

What are meant by the following terms: No. 1 spring, a corner, a disk harrow, a cradle, a flail, a separator, futures, warehouse certificates?

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)