Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plow with several shares and mold-boards arranged in a series; also, a number of plows in one frame, which is usually mounted on wheels and operated by steam.
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Examples
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"When we haven't help, and we're short of seed-grain, and we can't even get a gang-plow on credit?"
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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I put on Ikkie's overalls -- for I _have_ succeeded in coercing Ikkie into a jumper and the riding-seat of the old gang-plow -- and went out and studied that tractor.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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A week later, Charnock sat, one afternoon, in the saddle of his gang-plow, tearing a row of furrows through the dusty sod.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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Show him good wheat land lying vacant or rocks that block a railroad, and he won't rest till he starts the gang-plow or gets to work with giant-powder.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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Next morning Helen got up while the sun rose from behind a bluff on the edge of the plain, but when she went out on the veranda she saw the gasoline tractor and gang-plow lurch across the rise.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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There were days when he would not admit that all was lost, and harnessing his team in the early morning, drove the gang-plow through the soil until the red sunset faded off the plain.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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Then Merrick sent up a gang-plow and eight horses, and the tender green of Sam's quarter section was rapidly changed to a dull-brown color, which is odious unto the eye of the Pike.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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A two-share gang-plow is used, with a seat for the plowman.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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The clover, or sod, is plowed under deep and well, and the after-treatment consists in keeping the surface soil free from weeds, by the frequent use of the harrow, roller, cultivator or gang-plow.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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On such strong land as that of Mr. Lawes, we ought to plow the land in the autumn and again in the spring, or at least stir up the land thoroughly with a two or three-horse cultivator or gang-plow.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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