MOULDBOARD PLOUGH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Plow that has a moldboard

Synonyms:

moldboard plow; mouldboard plough

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)