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单词 plough handle
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plough handleplow handlen.

Brit. /ˈplaʊ ˌhandl/, U.S. /ˈplaʊ ˌhænd(ə)l/
Forms: see plough n.1 and handle n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: plough n.1, handle n.1
Etymology: < plough n.1 + handle n.1 Compare early modern Danish plogshandel (Danish regional plov-handel ). Compare earlier sullow-handle n. at sullow n. Compounds 2.
The handle, or either of the two handles, of a plough.
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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
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 97v A plughe handill, strua, stiua.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 256/1 Plowe handell, manche.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks i. 7 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks The plow handle also, The which should turne the cart behind.
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 21 On the Lawrell growes, And on the Elme. Your best Plow-handles euer.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxxii. §391 As he layeth it up into rigs, with the one hand hee holdeth the plough-handle.., with the other the plough-staffe.
1727 R. Bradley Compl. Body Husbandry ii. 30 The iron sockets, in which are fixed the plough-handles or plough-stilts.
1776 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 6 The ploughman carries a leather bottle of it hung over his shoulder, from which a small pipe conveys the water into a tube that runs along one of the plough handles.
1853 J. Stevenson tr. Church Historians Eng. I. 611 Directing the plough-handle, or working iron.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxxiii. 524 The native canoe..has an outrigger... This outrigger is formed of two long bent sticks like plow handles, which project from one side.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xvii. 144 If I rode over to see her where she was ploughing, she stopped at the end of a row to chat for a moment, then gripped her plough-handles, clucked to her team, and waded on down the furrow.
2002 Buffalo News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 2 June b4 Farmer Brown kept up a steady stream of talk, some directed at the team, some to the amateur at the plow handles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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