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ˈrest-balk, n.
Also 9 rist-baulk.
[f. rest n.1 or v.1 + balk n.1 3.]
A ridge left unploughed between two furrows, esp. in the process of raftering or ribbing. Also attrib. or Comb.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §4 A reste-balke is where the plough byteth at the poynte of the culture and share, and cutteth not the ground cleane to the forowe, that was plowed laste before, but leaueth a lyttell rydge standynge betwene. 1794A. Young in Driver Gen. View Agric. Hants. 68 Also raftering the land, which is a sort of rest baulk ploughing. 1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. i. 140 Breast-ploughed and burnt and succeeded by turnips, or rist-baulk ploughed and burnt and afterwards..sown with turnips.
Hence ˈrest-balk v. trans., to plough (land) with rest-balks; to rib or rafter.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §16 Make a depe holowe forowe in the rydge of the lande, and loke wel, thou rest-balke it nat. 1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. i. 137 The land is again rist-baulked... Some, therefore, rist-baulk or half-plough their sainfoin ley. |