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    weeds and crop remains to decay. Trenches cut by the plough are called furrows. In modern use, a ploughed field is normally left to dry and then harrowed...
    68 KB (9,017 words) - 22:15, 7 November 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
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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 (1,552 words) - 23:10, 22 October 2024
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    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) - 09:16, 24 October 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 Furrow...
    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 (1,734 words) - 18:15, 23 October 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 (1,779 words) - 21:27, 28 October 2024
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    Coulter (agriculture) (category Ploughs)
    to pull 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...
    3 KB (308 words) - 23:07, 12 March 2024
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    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 Weekly...
    40 KB (3,682 words) - 20:04, 16 November 2024
  • In Roman mythology Imporcitor was the deity of ploughing land with a wide furrow. He was one of the twelve helper gods of Ceres. He is also labeled as...
    2 KB (137 words) - 13:18, 29 October 2024
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    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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    ploughshare, which tends to leave an uneven, smeared furrow in clayey soils unless well-handled. Furthermore, the Ransome Victory plough is nearly unusable...
    5 KB (741 words) - 07:03, 11 September 2021
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    a carbon sink, playing a role in climate change mitigation. Contour ploughing orients furrows following the contour lines of the farmed area. Furrows...
    18 KB (2,102 words) - 03:01, 9 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) - 07:10, 1 November 2024
  • Carruca (category Ploughs)
    been introduced to the British Isles by the Viking invasions of England in the late 9th century. The carruca was able to turn over a furrow and it gave an...
    4 KB (557 words) - 16:46, 16 November 2024
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    (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) - 22:40, 11 November 2024
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    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) - 22:00, 10 October 2024
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    Harrow (tool) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    and to cover seed after sowing. Harrows differ from ploughs, which cut the upper 12 to 25 centimetre (5 to 10 in) layer of soil, and leave furrows, parallel...
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    £769m turnover boost after a year of buyouts". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 14 March 2017. Short, L.Ploughing the Furrow, Oriel Davis Kreft, M. B.; Ritchie...
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