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pulley-plough en · NOUN

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1. A steam cable-drawn plowing system or type of horse-drawn grading plow utilizing rope-and-pulley mechanical advantage.
   • A steam pulley plough in action, dragging the plough across the field 2006, Porter, Valerie, Yesterday's farm : life on the farm 1830-1960, page 62:
   • I therefore, in the Number of the firft of thefe, beg you would pleafe to let me know the feveral Prices of the Three- wheel Drill-plough, the Pulley-plough, and your Horfe-break, being very defirous to make Trial of their Ufe 1744, Ellis, William, “A Copy of a Letter”, in The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming, page 80:
   • there is no Occaſion for two Irons to be fixed at the Arſe or Tail of this Plough, as there is in the Pulley-plough, to gather up the Earth, and leave it in a Ridge Form on the Drill 1750, Ellis, William, “Of Sowing Oats in March”, in The modern husbandman, complete in eight volumes. Containing I. The practice of farming, ... By William Ellis, ... 1750: Vol 2, page 44:

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