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MOULDBOARD PLOUGH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plow that has a moldboard
Synonyms:
moldboard plow; mouldboard plough
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("mouldboard plough" is a kind of...):
plough; plow (a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing)
Meronyms (parts of "mouldboard plough"):
colter; coulter (a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil)
landside (component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard)
moldboard; mouldboard (wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow)
ploughshare; plowshare; share (a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mouldboard plough"):
lister; lister plough; lister plow; middle buster; middlebreaker (moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow)
