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horse-hoe
▪ I. ˈhorse-hoe, n. [f. horse n. + hoe n.] A frame mounted on wheels and furnished with ranges of shares at such intervals as to work in the spaces between drills or rows of plants, in which each acts like a hoe in stirring up the soil, rooting up weeds, etc.1731 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xviii (1733)...
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Jethro Tull (agriculturist)
On more than one occasion, he alluded in his work to the similarity of his own horse-hoe husbandry to the practice followed by the vine-dressers of the
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hand-hoe
▪ I. ˈhand-hoe, n. A hoe managed by the hands, as distinguished from a horse-hoe, etc.1744–50 W. Ellis Mod. Husb. IV. i. 7 A Man, with the common Hand-hough, may directly follow, and pull up the loose Mould to the Stalks. 1853 Catal. Roy. Agric. Soc. Show Gloucester 111 A Hand Hoe for Corn and Turni...
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Hoe (tool)
resembling small ploughs, were a favourite implement of agricultural pioneer Jethro Tull, who claimed in his book "Horse Hoeing Husbandry" that "the horse-hoe
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scuffle
▪ I. scuffle, n.1 (ˈskʌf(ə)l) Also 7 skuffle. [f. scuffle v.1] 1. A scrambling fight; an encounter with much hustling and random exchange of blows; a tussle. Comb. scuffle-royal (nonce-wd.) after battle-royal.1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. i. 7 His Captaines heart, Which in the scuffles of great Fights ...
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nidget
▪ I. nidget, n.1 Now only arch. (ˈnɪdʒɪt) Also 6 nigeot, 7 nigit, nigid, niget, nigget. [var. of nidiot: see note to idiot.] An idiot, a fool. ‘As a modern word, if used, it signifies a trifler’ (Smart).α 1579–80 North Plutarch (1895) II. 50 This made men judge..that he would prove a very foole and ...
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History of the horse in Britain
The improved seed drill and horse-hoe were invented by Jethro Tull in 1731; but it took more than 100 years for these designs to come into common use.
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hoe-plough
ˈhoe-plough, n. ? Obs. = horse-hoe.1733 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xvi. 112 The Plow, which is almost the same with the Ho-Plow. 1775 Romans Florida 120 In a large field these hoeings are most commodiously performed by the hoe plough drawn by one horse. Hence hoe-plough v. trans., to hoe with a hoe-plo...
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shim
▪ I. shim, n.1 (ʃɪm) Also 7 shimm(e. [Represents formally OE. scima shadow, gloom. Cognate forms are OS. scimo shade, WFris. skim, NFris. skemm, MLG. schême shade, twilight, ghost, MDu. schem, schim, schême shade, shadow, ghost, shimmer, shine (Du. schim shadow, phantom), MHG. scheme ghost (G. schem...
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hoe
▪ I. hoe, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (həʊ) Forms: 1 hóh, hó, (3–6 hogh), 5– howe, 7–8 haw(e, 5– hoe, hooe, hoo. [OE. hóh, hó, str. masc. (gen. hós, dat. hóᵹe, hó, pl. hós) the same word as the northern heugh (and app. the same as ho n.1 heel):—OTeut. type *hanho-, from ablaut stem of hang v.] ‘A projecting...
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castor
▪ I. castor1 (ˈkɑːstə(r), -æ-) Also 6 castour, 7 -er. [a. F. castor (16th c.) and L. castor, a. Gr. κάστωρ beaver, prob. a foreign word. Cf. Skr. kastūrī musk.] 1. The beaver. (Now rarely used).[1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxix. (1495) 789 The Castor hyght Fyber also.] 1547 Boorde Introd. Kno...
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skimmer
▪ I. skimmer, n. (ˈskɪmə(r)) Forms: α. 4 skemour, 5 skemere. β. 4–5 skymour(e, 5 skymere, 5–6 skymer, 7 skimer. γ. 4 skymmoure, 6 skymber, 7 skymmer; 5– skimmer (8 schimmer). [In older senses ad. OF. escumoir and escumeur (esquemeur): see scummer n. In later use also f. skim v. + -er1.] 1. a. A shal...
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skim
▪ I. skim, n. Also 6 skymme, 6–7 skimme. [f. skim v. In earlier use taking the place of scum n.] 1. † a. = scum n. 2 b. Obs.1539 Elyot Cast. Helthe 33 That [water]..wherof cometh leest skymme or frothe, whan it doth boyle. a 1591 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 444 Like a skimme which seetheth into the broth....
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hop
▪ I. hop, n.1 (hɒp) Also 5–6 hoope, hopp, 5–7 hoppe, 6 hope. [In 15th c. hoppe, a. MDu. hoppe, Du. hop = late OHG. hopfo (MHG. hopfe, Ger. hopfen); med.L. hupa (for *huppa); ulterior origin obscure.] 1. (Usually in pl.) a. The ripened cones of the female hop-plant (see 2), used for giving a bitter f...
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