backfurrow
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editbackfurrow (plural backfurrows)
- (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
- 1977, Archie Augustus Stone, Harold E. Gulvin, Machines for Power Farming, page 210:
- Harrow sections are usually held together by bolts and projecting eyes which permit them to follow the contours of terraces and backfurrows.
Verb
editbackfurrow (third-person singular simple present backfurrows, present participle backfurrowing, simple past and past participle backfurrowed)
- (agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.
- 1923, Jenkin William Jones, Rice Experiments at the Biggs Rice Field Station in California, page 56:
- Before planting, an attempt was made to list the ground, the land being ridged with an ordinary walking plow by backfurrowing.