单词 | ox-harrow |
释义 | ox-harrown. Now chiefly historical. A large and powerful harrow used on clay lands, originally drawn by oxen; a drag-harrow (see also quot. 1877). ΘΚΠ 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. Obsolete. transitive. To harrow (a field) with an ox-harrow. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1465v.1778 |
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