Crossword clues for moldboard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moldboard \Mold"board`\, Mouldboard \Mould"board`\, n.
A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
(Founding) A follow board.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer that clears the free dirt from the blade. 2 (context founding English) A follow board.
WordNet
n. wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow [syn: mouldboard]
Usage examples of "moldboard".
That was a moldboard, and it was characteristic of this particular time.
It was as if he were trying to proceed through life as he had designed his moldboard plow to go through the red clay of Virginia, with the least resistance possible.
John Deere invented a plow with a revolving blade and a steel moldboard that was able to cut the sod and turn it over.
Madam Chairman, that the natives of Rugi II learned of the moldboard plow through an indiscreet remark by one of your Survey Service operatives?
Behind Themphi followed teams of oxen with knife-edged but deep moldboard plows.
Finally the moldboard plow was created which completely overturns the soil because of its increased curvature.
Folly, has shown how plowing disturbs the capillary action and how the moldboard plow by completely overturning the soil, reinforces this disturbance.
He knelt and began pulling at lumps between the coulter knife that cut the furrow and the moldboard that turned it over.
The moldboard rose, hinged, folded back to become the silver sides of the machine again.
The sharp steel plowshare followed it, slicing underneath the matted grass roots, and the moldboard lifted the long, straight-edged strip of sod and turned it upside down.
I ask you again, Madam Chairman, isn't it a fact that the natives of that planet learned about the moldboard plow from Service personnel?
Yet today he is known (and only to a few specialists, at that) for an improved blacksmiths bellows in the year 1785, for a certain modification (not fundamental) in the moldboard plow about 1805, for a better (but not good) method of reefing the lateen sail, for a chestnut roaster, for the Devils Claw Wedge for splitting logs, and for a nutmeg grater embodying a new safety feature.
I flung on all my weight, put all the strength I had in my back and arms and shoulders into it, to push it deep down to where the moldboards took hold of the ground.