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单词 ox-harrow
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ox-harrown.

Brit. /ˈɒksˌharəʊ/, U.S. /ˈɑksˌ(h)ɛroʊ/
Forms: see ox n. and harrow n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ox n., harrow n.1
Etymology: < ox n. + harrow n.1
Now chiefly historical.
A large and powerful harrow used on clay lands, originally drawn by oxen; a drag-harrow (see also quot. 1877).
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow > types of harrow
drag1388
ox-harrow1465
drag-harrow1744
bush-harrow1770
twitch harrow1771
brake1786
crab-harrow1796
twitch drag1799
tormentor1808
flag-harrow1845
chain-harrow1870
pitch-pole1929
1465 in J. Raine Charters Priory Finchale (1837) p. ccxcix (MED) Husbandria apud Fynkhall..ij oxharow cum xxvj tyndz, ij horsharowys.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ixv It is vsed in many countreis husbandes to haue an oxe harrowe, the which is made of .vi. smale peses of tymbre called harrow bulles.
1608 Inventory Richard Smith in J. West Village Rec. (1982) iv. 100 Hem, on wayne, on tumbrell, a oxharrow.
1687 Inventory in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) I. i. 125 One oxe harowe one payre of horse harows.
1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xxi. 89 A pair of ox-harrows, or the heaviest of all, in many counties called drags.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 373 Were I to have two ox-harrows,..I should be obliged to have a much stronger team than four stout horses.
1807 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Essex I. v. 147 Very large and powerful harrows for their strong land, which they call ox harrows.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 187/1 Ox-harrows, harrows furnished with hales.
1925 Times 4 May 21/3 At the present time I am making old-fashioned ox-harrows to go behind a tractor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ox-harrowv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ox-harrow n.
Etymology: < ox-harrow n.
Obsolete.
transitive. To harrow (a field) with an ox-harrow.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > harrow
harrow1377
to-harrow1393
draga1722
ox-harrow1778
bush1787
bush-harrow1788
brake1800
chip1802
crab-harrow1844
tine1854
1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 15 Aug. 1775 Ox-harrowed [field] A. 2, and gathered it up into five-'bout lands.
1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 107 (table) Ploughed, 2 horses, three times... Ox harrowed, four times.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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