† plough-mell, plow- Obs.
[f. plough n.1 + mell n.1]
A mallet formerly carried on the plough for breaking up large clods; a plough-mallet.
| a 1450 Turn. of Totenham 151 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 89 The chefe was of a ploo mell, And the schadow of a bell. 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §3 Men that be no husbandes,..that knowe not whiche is the ploughe beame, the sharebeame,..and the ploughe mal. 1765–94 Percy Reliques (1845) Gloss., Plowmell, a small wooden hammer occasionally fixed to the plow, still used in the North; in the Midland counties in its stead is used a plow-hatchet. |