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1670 A. Martindale Let. 2 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 297 Other sorts of poore land we use to fleet with a kind of Instrument called a push-plow which will cut a delicate thin turfe.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 115 The turf..they cut in the Moorelands in the Spring time with an instrument call'd a push-plow, being a sort of spade, shod somewhat in the form of an arrow.

1797 Communic. to Board of Agric. I. 143 The surface sods should, with a push-plough or paring-spade, be carefully pared off.

1895 T. Ellwood Lakeland & Iceland 78 Push Plū or Plough, a plough which was used by being pushed by the hand. It was generally used for taking off the surface or top sod from the turf.

1897 Halifax Courier 29 May 7/7 Push-plough, the breast plough.

1906 J. S. Newman Southern Gardener's Pract. Man. 34 The push-plow has become an indispensable implement in both the domestic and the commercial garden.

1990 Callalloo 13 243 He would stand erect When he was behind the push plow, Grunting against the blade's slow cut.

1890 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 18 Feb. 2/2 A push plow and five engines make regular trips night and day between Emigrant Gap and Alta.

1920 Geogr. Rev. 9 67 In the case of snows a few feet in depth on level ground locomotive push plows or rotary plows are employed.

1942 Sci. Monthly Mar. 217 (caption) An old push-plow that was used on early days on the narrow gauge railway to Tahoe.

2005 Visalia (Calif.) Times-Delta (Nexis) 22 Jan. 2 e To keep a road open during storms, the strategy is to start with push plows that move snow toward the road shoulder and then, if necessary, to follow these with snow blowers.