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Cross-plough, -plow. World English Historical Dictionary

Cross-plough, -plow. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cross-plough, -plow v. [CROSS- 6.] trans. To plow (a field) across the furrows of a former plowing. Hence Cross-ploughing vbl. sb.

1 c. 1644.  G. Plattes, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 187. He ploughed [it] up at Michaelmass … and afterward cross ploughed it.

2 1759.  trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. vi. (1762), 15. Let the whole field be cross-plowed.

3 1842.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., III. I. 163. I immediately ploughed it in; and about Christmas I cross-ploughed it. Ibid. (1844), V. I. 40. As soon as the land is sufficiently dry it receives two deep cross-ploughings.

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