boutingn.
/ˈbaʊtɪŋ/ (See quot.) Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun]
eartheOE
earingOE
ploughing1374
fallowing1426
labouragec1475
ardagh1483
eara1500
fallowa1500
arder1581
waining1585
stitch1600
caruage1610
furrow1610
till1647
aration1663
bouting1733
breast-ploughing1754
prairie-breaking1845
sodbusting1965
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxviii. 311 Bouting, or Bouting-up, is a Half-ploughing of the Ground.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxviii. 312 Bouting-down, is done by making a shallow Thorough on each Side of the Ridge of the Bout.
1786 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 43 The field..is divided into 3 parts, by bouting Rows running crossways.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 224 Sometimes (in ploughing land) two ridges are set up against each other, which is called ridging or bouting.
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