To drive (a plough) less deeply in the soil.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > plough lightly (9) shoal1670 To drive (a plough) less deeply in the soil. scratch1697 hyperbolically. To furrow (the soil) very lightly for the purpose of cultivation. stirree1742 (transitive) to give a ‘stirree’ to (land). skirtc1795 dialect. To plough in a certain manner (see skirting, n. 2). skim1799 Agriculture. To plough (land) very lightly. riffle1804 transitive. English regional (Norfolk). To plough lightly. Cf. riffler, n.2 rare. skim-plough1807 a plough having a skim attached, a skim-coulter plough; hence skim-plough vb. hen-scratch1872 transitive. To dig (the ground, land, etc.) in a cursory manner and to insufficient depth, esp. in ploughing, mining, or prospecting for minerals… scratch-plough1926 (transitive) to plough very shallowly. |
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