| 单词 | plough hale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplough hale Either of the handles of a wheelbarrow or a horse-drawn plough. Also as the second element in compounds, as plough hale, barrow hale. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough-tail or stilt startOE stiltc1340 plough-start1440 tail1466 plough handle?c1475 steer-tree1483 plough stilt?1523 plough-tail?1523 stilking?1523 steer1552 hale?1570 stive1693 plough-tree1799 by-tail1879 ?1570 T. Drant tr. St. Jerome in Two Serm. sig. C.iij Let the Plough man holding the hale [L. stivam], sing some Psalme of Dauid. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. iv. sig. C2v If your Plough-Irons..will not bite on the earth..it is a signe that you hang too heavy on the Plough hales. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 189 For the Plough-handles, some call them Stilts, and some Hales, and some Staves. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 38 A is the Plough-beam, B the Handle, Tail, Stilts, Hales, or Staves. 1840 C. Howard Farming at Ridgemont 132 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III The hales and beam resemble those of a common plough. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 90 The hailes flew up and caught me on the gob. 1900 Cassell's Cycl. Mech. 1st Ser. 176/1 The iron that fastens the wheel to the barrow hale is ¾ in. broad. 1984 C. Kightly Country Voices ii. 44 He put the coulter [blade] straight, and then he hung the lines [reins] on the hales [handles of the plough]. < as lemmas |
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