mole plow

noun

1. a plow typically having a pointed shoe at the end of a vertical support, for cutting a hollow drainage channel below the surface.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mole plow¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

As to draining by what is called a Mole Plow, which simply makes a waterway through the subsoil at a depth of three feet or thereabout, I have no acquaintance with it but by hearsay.

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Stephens gives a minute description of the mole plow figured above, in his Book of the Farm.

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We hear reports of a mole plow, in use in the same State, known by the name of Marcus and Emerson's Patent Subsoiler, with which, an informant says, drains are made also in the manner above named.

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These machines are, from description, modifications of the English Mole Plow, an implement long ago known and used in Great Britain.

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They are formed by means of a machine called the mole plow.

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