Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which subsoils; an implement or part of an implement used in subsoiling.

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  • noun A type of plough that loosens the subsoil

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Examples

  • The ordinary plough was to be followed in this case by a subsoiler, to stir the earth as deep as possible.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • We marked off a plat two hundred feet by three hundred, about one and a half acres, carted a lot of manure on it, and ploughed it as deep as the subsoiler would reach.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Let Sam take the plough, and have young Thompson follow with the subsoiler.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • In subsoiling for alfalfa, usually the more deeply the ground can be stirred by the subsoiler, the better will be the results that will follow.

    Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880

  • I agree with that practical horticulturist, Peter Henderson, that there are no implements equal to the plow and subsoiler, and, in our broad and half-occupied country, we should be rather shy of land where these cannot be used.

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • If possible, before planting, plow and cross-plow deeply, and have a subsoiler follow in each furrow.

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Delta, any topsoil restructuring being via subsoiler before establishing the rape.

    FWi - All News 2010

  • Delta, any topsoil restructuring being via subsoiler before establishing the rape.

    FWi - All News 2010

  • Erth Engineering shows grass drill grassland subsoiler uses coil-sprung plain discs to cut a slot ahead of the legs.

    FWi - All News 2010

  • On heavy ground one pass in the autumn with a subsoiler last autumn may well have proven to be the most cost effective input for the crop.

    FWi - All News 2009

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