ˈcross-ˌplough, v.
[cross- 6.]
trans. To plough (a field) across the furrows of a former ploughing. Hence ˈcross-ˌploughing vbl. n.
| c 1644 G. Plattes in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 187 He ploughed [it] up at Michaelmass..and afterward cross ploughed it. 1759 tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. vi. (1762) 15 Let the whole field be cross-plowed. 1842 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. III. i. 163, I immediately ploughed it in; and about Christmas I cross-ploughed it. 1844 Ibid. V. i. 40 As soon as the land is sufficiently dry it receives two deep cross-ploughings. |