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1754 J. Justice Scots Gardiners Director 195 I would use most of my Cow Dung which I rot for my Flower-garden in the ridging hot-bed Manner.

1771 L. Carter Diary 8 Feb. (1965) I. 537 He..throws the earth into the middle like a ridging bed.

1777 J. Black Observ. Tillage Earth 38 No invention..can approach to the pulveration of tilth, to be made by the hoeing and earthing with the ridging double mold-board plough.

1836 T. Bridgeman Kitchen Gardener's Instructor 99 If the ridging system be adopted..Melons may be obtained one month earlier than the usual time.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1939/2 A ridging-plow, the wings of which are expanded or contracted by segmental racks and a pinion.

1890 H. W. Wiley Sugar-beet Industry 84 It is well to throw a little dirt against them so as to form a slight ridge. This can be done by a ridging hoe.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) i. xi. 85 (caption) It can be converted..into a double-breasted or ridging plough.

1954 R. H. Cochrane Farm Machinery & Tractors (ed. 2) 11 The ridging body is made up of two mouldboards mounted on a beam.

1974 J. Seymour Fat of Land (new ed.) iv. 54 We used a ‘jalo’ wheel hoe—with a ridging attachment.

1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 129/1 (advt.) Hassia 2 row potato planter with ridging bodies £750.