ploughstaff

British

/ ˈplaʊˌstɑːf /

noun

Also called: ploughtail. one of the handles of a plough
a spade-shaped tool used to clean the ploughshare and mouldboard

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Poem 144. sleekit: sleek; bickering brattle: flittering flight; laith: loth; pattle: ploughstaff; whyles: at times; a daimen icker: a corn-ear now and then; thrave: shock; lave: rest; foggage: aftergrass; snell: biting; but hald: without dwelling-place; thole: bear; cranreuch: hoarfrost; thy lane: alone; a-gley: off the right line, awry.

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