mouldboard
Britishnoun
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I's watch grandpap take de hard wood block and with de ax and de drawshave and de plane and saw and rule, him cut and fit de mouldboard to de turnin' plow.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Both mouldboard and disc ploughs are in use, some soils suiting one and some the other, while use for both will often be found on the one farm.
From Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
The degree to which the mouldboard pulverizes depends on the steepness of its slant upward and the abruptness of its curve sidewise.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
They might prefer, as indeed might others who would like to see their green manure nearer the top of the soil, to disk in the green crop rather than bury it deeply with mouldboard plows.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
For breaking new land a plow with a long, gradually sloping share and mouldboard is used.
From The First Book of Farming by Goodrich, Charles Landon
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