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pulley plough

pulley plough is the alternative form of pulley-plough.

Meaning of pulley-plough

Noun

pulley-plough (plural pulley-ploughs)

  1. A steam cable-drawn plowing system or type of horse-drawn grading plow utilizing rope-and-pulley mechanical advantage.
    • I therefore, in the Number of the firft of thefe, beg you would pleafe to let me know the feveral Prices of the Three- wheel Drill-plough, the Pulley-plough, and your Horfe-break, being very defirous to make Trial of their Ufe1744, Ellis, William, “A Copy of a Letter”, in The modern husbandman, or, The practice of farming, page 80

Forms of pulley plough

pluralpulley ploughs

Questions about pulley plough

What is pulley plough the alternative form of?
Pulley plough is the alternative form of pulley-plough.

Words near pulley plough in the dictionary

  1. pulley
  2. pulley block
  3. pulley blocks
  4. pulley bone
  5. pulley bones
  6. pulley plough
  7. pulley shell
  8. pulley shells
  9. pulley-plough
  10. Pulleyblank
  11. pulleyed

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