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▪ I. ard Archæol.|ɑːd|
[a. Norw., ad. ON. arðr plough: cf. arder and ear v.1]
A primitive light plough, which scratched the surface of the land rather than turning furrows.
1931Acta Archaeologica II. 131 The balk-enclosed fields were cultivated by means of a plough without the mould-board, a primitive plough of the type which in Nordic languages is called ard, arl or ahl. 1936Ibid. VII. 244/1 In the Bronze Age the soil was cultivated with the ard, as is evidenced by the rock carvings in Bohuslän. 1946Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. (ed. 2) i. i. 16 They cleared the woods..and then tilled the ground with a wheel-less ard-plough. 1950Oxoniensia XV. 9 On the Berkshire Downs, the use of a light plough or ‘ard’ is implied by the deliberate avoidance of the clay soils which we have noted. 1960Antiquity XXXIV. 144 The Donneruplund ard was found in 1944 and is dated to the middle of the 1st millennium b.c. 1974J. Bulman tr. Glob's Mound People vi. 148 The earth was treated with a plough of the kind known as an ard that does not turn the soil over as the plough does, but cuts broad furrows in it. 1978Rescue News Dec. 4/2 We are fortunate to have found a set of plough-marks, made by a single-share ard plough, preserved on a patch of clay.
▪ II. ard, -en
obs. forms of hard, -en. |