单词 | foot plough |
释义 | > as lemmasfoot plough foot plough n. (a) a type of swing plough (now chiefly historical and rare); (b) an implement resembling a narrow pointed pick and used like a spade with the foot to break up stiff ground; cf. caschrom n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > foot-plough foot plough1625 swing plough1733 overtread plougha1843 over-treading plough1893 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. vi. 1469 They till their ground with Oxen, and foot-Ploughs. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 247 There are two sorts used in Oxfordshire, the Foot, and Wheel-plough; whereof the first is used in deep and Clay Lands, being accordingly fitted with a broad fin share. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 322 The Foot-plough, is so called from a Piece of Wood, or Iron made somewhat like our Foot. 1789 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1947) 27 Dec. 560/1 A foott plow, 2 harrows. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 307 In Brabant..They use the excellent Flemish swing plough, which they call a foot plough, as it is also called in some parts of England, in contradistinction to a wheel plough. At the same time they also retain the old and heavy turn wrest plough. 1888 Asiatic Q. Rev. Jan. 451 The foot-plough, caschroom, of the Hebrides..is probably the simplest plough now known. 2003 Times 12 July (Weekend) 7/3 An old tool called a ‘tramp-pick’, a hooked implement looking like an old foot plough. < as lemmas |
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