Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plow, with a simple triangular share, used for cultivating the ground between growing crops.
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Examples
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But after the last weeding, say in a week or ten days, one more plowing is usually given, generally with the cultivator or shovel-plow, run once in the row.
The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones
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For the fourth and fifth plowings the cultivator or shovel-plow is used.
The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones
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The process of its cultivation as followed by the Southern planter is very easy, and entails no considerable expense; any one having a few acres of land and a sufficient amount of money to purchase a small shovel-plow and a few bags of guano for manure, being competent to engage in it, provided he possesses the physical ability to handle a hoe about ten inches in width.
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Cultivators and shovel-plows are used to keep the soil loose and clean; if the weather should prove damp and cold, the shovel-plow is used to make the ridges somewhat higher.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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When the weeds and grass have been thoroughly killed by the sun, the shovel-plow or hook may be run between the rows, and following after, uncover such leaves as may have been buried by the earth thrown up by the implement, and hoeing the ridges into an even shape, rather flat upon the top, and rounding off gradually till they meet in the centre between the rows of tobacco, forming a ditch or furrow not too deep, but answering the purpose of a drain.
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