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subsoiler

American  
[suhb-soi-ler] / ˈsʌbˌsɔɪ lər /

noun

  1. one who operates a subsoil plow.

  2. subsoil plow.


Etymology

Origin of subsoiler

First recorded in 1850–55; subsoil + -er 1

Example Sentences

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Plants two-year-old trees, in trenches made with plow and subsoiler.

From The Apple by Various

The alfalfa is the silent subsoiler, and when the whole quarter is seeded we’ll pull that mortgage up by the roots, all right.”

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.

Let Sam take the plough, and have young Thompson follow with the subsoiler.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

They should be thrown out as deep as can be done with a plow, then followed by subsoiler twelve to eighteen inches deep.

From The Apple by Various

We marked off a plat two hundred feet by three hundred, about one and a half acres, carted a lot of manure on it, and ploughed it as deep as the subsoiler would reach.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

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