breast ploughbreast plown.

Brit.

/ˈbrɛs(t) plaʊ/, U.S.

/ˈbrɛs(t) ˌplaʊ/

Forms: see breast n. and plough n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., plough n.¹

Etymology: < breast n. + plough n.¹

Agriculture. Now historical.

A large, spade-like hand tool with a broad, T-shaped handle against which the operator's chest is pressed in order to exert greater force, used esp. for paring turf and other surface vegetation. Cf. push plough n. 1, hand-plough n. at hand n. Compounds 6.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > breast-plough

breast plough1669

push plough1670

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ v. 59 The most usual Method is, with a Breast-plough to pare off the Turf, turning it over as its cut that it may dry the better.

1721 J. Edmonds in J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. I. 101 He says likewise, that he improved some of the same sort of Land by plowing of it up with a Breast-plough.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 179 We must..labour as at a breast-plough.

1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement of Brit. 18/1 Other tools traditionally used in paring and burning include flaying spades, foot ploughs and breast ploughs.

2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 20 Alex learnt how to use a breast plough, how to dig a post hole and how to thatch a cowshed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	breast plough
释义	breast ploughbreast plown. Brit. /ˈbrɛs(t) plaʊ/, U.S. /ˈbrɛs(t) ˌplaʊ/ Forms: see breast n. and plough n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., plough n.¹ Etymology: < breast n. + plough n.¹ Agriculture. Now historical. A large, spade-like hand tool with a broad, T-shaped handle against which the operator's chest is pressed in order to exert greater force, used esp. for paring turf and other surface vegetation. Cf. push plough n. 1, hand-plough n. at hand n. Compounds 6. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > breast-plough breast plough1669 push plough1670 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ v. 59 The most usual Method is, with a Breast-plough to pare off the Turf, turning it over as its cut that it may dry the better. 1721 J. Edmonds in J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. I. 101 He says likewise, that he improved some of the same sort of Land by plowing of it up with a Breast-plough. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xv. 179 We must..labour as at a breast-plough. 1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement of Brit. 18/1 Other tools traditionally used in paring and burning include flaying spades, foot ploughs and breast ploughs. 2005 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 12 Aug. 20 Alex learnt how to use a breast plough, how to dig a post hole and how to thatch a cowshed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1669
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