| 单词 |
plough-foot |
| 释义 |
† ˈplough-foot, ˈplow- Obs.
[Cf. Norw. dial. plog-fot.]
In a wheelless plough, an adjustable piece of wood or iron, attached to the front of the beam, regulating the depth of the ploughing: see quots.
It is doubtful however whether the plow-fote in Piers Plowman had this meaning; the variant reading plow-bat and the context point rather to its identity with plough-staff.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 105 My plow-fote shal be my pyk-staf and picche atwo þe rotes, And helpe my culter to kerue and clense þe forwes [v.rr. A. plouh-pote, plowbat; B. plow-pote, ploughwes foot; C. plouh-fot, plowbat]. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §3 The plough fote is a lyttell pece of wodde, with a croked ende set before in a morteys in the ploughe beame, sette fast with wedges, to dryue vppe and downe, and it is a staye to order, of what depenes the ploughe shall go. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandm. iii. B iv b, Plough foote,..the vse of it is to giue the Plough earth, or put it from the earth, as you please. 1707W. Baxter Gloss. Antiq. Rom. etc. (1731) 406 Tho' our Translation..makes Samgar to have slain six hundred Men with an Ox-goad: The LXX say it was ἐν τῷ ἀροτρόποδι, which..is Dentale, or the Plow-foot. |
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