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- verb transitive To
plough withdeep furrows , for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
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Examples
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If the subsoil be a rich black mould, or a continuation of the same alluvial or other fertile soil which forms the surface -- it may be turned up at once by the trench-plough without hesitation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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What is advanced as the main advantage of trench-ploughing in the first passage -- that it can be safely done without previous draining, is in the second wholly discarded by the advice, _never to trench-plough without previous draining_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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