cross-ploughv.
transitive. To plough (a field) across the furrows of a former ploughing.
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cross-ploughc1644
overthwart1667
thwart1847
to cut back1858
cross1859
c1644 G. Plattes in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 187 He ploughed [it] up at Michaelmass..and afterward cross ploughed it.
1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry i. vi. 15 Let the whole field be cross-plowed.
1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 i. 163 I immediately ploughed it in; and about Christmas I cross-ploughed it.
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ˈcross-ˌploughing n.
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1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 40 As soon as the land is sufficiently dry it receives two deep cross-ploughings.
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