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  • Thumbnail for Plough
    cut by the plough are called furrows. In modern use, a ploughed field is normally left to dry and then harrowed before planting. Ploughing and cultivating...
    68 KB (8,998 words) - 10:25, 29 August 2024
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    Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the...
    11 KB (1,442 words) - 11:43, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Ploughing Ceremony
    hitched to a wooden plough and they plough a furrow in some ceremonial ground, while rice seed is sown by court Brahmins. After the ploughing, the oxen...
    24 KB (2,409 words) - 01:28, 25 June 2024
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    plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical...
    11 KB (1,550 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2024
  • Look up furrow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A furrow is a line cut in soil when ploughed in order to plant a crop. Furrow may also refer to: The...
    591 bytes (109 words) - 21:15, 16 September 2023
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    single furrow, double furrow or triple furrow plough. The single furrow plough had one 23-inch diameter disc, the double furrow had one 23-inch disc and...
    7 KB (869 words) - 11:12, 1 June 2024
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    dubbed the "stump-jump" plough (also spelt without the hyphen). The first plough produced by Richard Smith was a three-furrow plough he called the "Vixen"...
    16 KB (1,737 words) - 03:05, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ploughing match
    tractor ploughing. Points are awarded for straightness and neatness of the resulting furrows. The annual 3-day long Irish National Ploughing Championships...
    2 KB (161 words) - 10:48, 23 November 2020
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    mitigation. Contour ploughing orients furrows following the contour lines of the farmed area. Furrows move left and right to maintain a constant altitude...
    18 KB (2,102 words) - 03:01, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ransome Victory Plough
    tends to leave an uneven, smeared furrow in clayey soils unless well-handled. Furthermore, the Ransome Victory plough is nearly unusable in dry soils,...
    5 KB (741 words) - 07:03, 11 September 2021
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    cite Julie Bindel who was ploughing this furrow when Walsh was still at school? Sousa, Mathew De (June 7, 2022). ""What is a Woman" Review". The Catholic...
    39 KB (3,625 words) - 01:40, 12 September 2024
  • Carruca (category Ploughs)
    of England in the late 9th century. The carruca was able to turn over a furrow and it gave an opportunity to utilize the heavier soils of Northern Europe...
    4 KB (594 words) - 19:22, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Run rig
    This resulted from the horsedrawn plough being worked in a clockwise direction, with the mould board turning the furrow to the right, thereby creating these...
    5 KB (746 words) - 11:24, 5 September 2024
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    Coulter (agriculture) (category Ploughs)
    but using a coulter resulted in a much cleaner result. It softens the soil, allowing the plough to undercut the furrow made by the coulter. A rolling coulter...
    3 KB (308 words) - 23:07, 12 March 2024
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    Furlong (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of...
    14 KB (1,770 words) - 10:08, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Fowler (agricultural engineer)
    the furrow so as to pull the plough in either direction, and after completing a furrow, the carts would be winched to the position for the next furrow. Fowler's...
    17 KB (2,391 words) - 01:59, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Foot plough
    The foot plough is a type of plough used like a spade with the foot in order to cultivate the ground. Before the widespread use of metal farm tools from...
    10 KB (1,376 words) - 04:37, 3 August 2024
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    Carucate (redirect from Plough-gate)
    carrūcāta or carūcāta) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season. It was...
    4 KB (586 words) - 16:14, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfred George Gardiner
    (1923) The Life of Sir William Harcourt (2 vols.) (1923) Many Furrows (as "Alpha of the Plough") (1924) John Benn and the Progressive Movement (1925) Portraits...
    8 KB (811 words) - 10:57, 13 August 2024
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    Harrow (tool) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    sowing. Harrows differ from ploughs, which cut the upper 12 to 25 centimetre (5 to 10 in) layer of soil, and leave furrows, parallel trenches. Harrows...
    8 KB (1,051 words) - 15:21, 13 April 2024
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