English > mouldboard plough: 1 sense > noun 1, artifactMeaning | plow that has a moldboard. |
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Synonym | moldboard plow |
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Parts | colter, coulter | A sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil |
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landside | Component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard |
moldboard, mouldboard | Wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow |
plowshare, ploughshare, share | A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil |
Narrower | lister, lister plow, lister plough, middlebreaker, middle buster | moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow |
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Broader | plow, plough | A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing |
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