MOULDBOARD PLOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mouldboard plough mean? 

• MOULDBOARD PLOUGH (noun)
  The noun MOULDBOARD PLOUGH has 1 sense:

1. plow that has a moldboard

  Familiarity information: MOULDBOARD PLOUGH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOULDBOARD PLOUGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plow that has a moldboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

moldboard plow; mouldboard plough

Hypernyms ("mouldboard plough" is a kind of...):

plough; plow (a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing)

Meronyms (parts of "mouldboard plough"):

colter; coulter (a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts vertically through the soil)

landside (component consisting of a side piece opposite the moldboard)

moldboard; mouldboard (wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow)

ploughshare; plowshare; share (a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mouldboard plough"):

lister; lister plough; lister plow; middle buster; middlebreaker (moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow)