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mouldboard
/ ˈməʊldˌbɔːd /
noun
- the curved blade of a plough, which turns over the furrow
Example Sentences
The mouldboard plough cuts a long thick ribbon of soil, and turns it upside down.
I's watch grandpap take de hard wood block and with de ax and de drawshave and de plane and saw and rule, him cut and fit de mouldboard to de turnin' plow.
Both mouldboard and disc ploughs are in use, some soils suiting one and some the other, while use for both will often be found on the one farm.
They might prefer, as indeed might others who would like to see their green manure nearer the top of the soil, to disk in the green crop rather than bury it deeply with mouldboard plows.
For breaking new land a plow with a long, gradually sloping share and mouldboard is used.
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