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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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I prefer young, thrifty trees, planted in furrows made with a plow and subsoiler.

From The Apple by Various

In subsoiling for alfalfa, usually the more deeply the ground can be stirred by the subsoiler, the better will be the results that will follow.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas

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

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.

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