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ˈox-ˌharrow, n.
A large and powerful harrow used on clay lands; originally drawn by oxen.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §15 It is vsed in many countreys, the husbandes to haue an oxe harowe, the whiche is made of sixe smal peces of timbre, called harowe bulles. 1764Museum Rusticum III. xxi. 89 A pair of ox-harrows, or the heaviest of all, in many counties called drags. 1766Ibid. VI. 373 Were I to have two ox-harrows,..I should be obliged to have a much stronger team than four stout horses. 1813A. Young Agric. Essex I. 147 Very large and powerful harrows for their strong land, which they call ox harrows.
Hence ox-harrow v. trans., to harrow with an ox-harrow.
1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 15 Aug. 1775 Ox-harrowed A. 2 [a certain field], and gathered it up into five-'bout lands. |