subsoil plow

noun

1. a plow for stirring the subsoil, usually without disturbing the surface.

Word History and Origins

Origin of subsoil plow¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Happily, they were sunk so low that the subsoil plow will never disturb them.

From Project Gutenberg

And I insist upon setting the rows or drills well apart, because I hold that the soil should often be loosened and stirred to a good depth with the subsoil plow; and that this process should be persevered in till the plant is in blossom.

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The time will doubtless arrive in which many fields will pay for clearing of stone that would not to-day; these, I urge, should be given up to wood now, and kept wooded until the hour shall have struck for ridding them of every impediment to the steady progress of both the surface and the subsoil plow.

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The land should be thoroughly plowed, and if the clay subsoil comes near the surface it should be loosened with the subsoil plow.

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He is wrong in not adding to his tools the deep surface plow, the subsoil plow, the cultivator, and many others of improved construction.

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