gangplow
English
Alternative forms
- gang plow, gang-plow
- gangplough, gang plough, gang-plough (UK)
Etymology
From gang (“a combination of tools or machines coordinated to work together as a set”) + plow (“a farm implement used to break up soil into furrows for sowing”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: găngʹplou', IPA(key): /ˈɡæŋˌplaʊ/
- Hyphenation: gang‧plow
Noun
gangplow (plural gangplows) (American spelling)
- A plow with multiple plowshares, moldboards, and colters, arranged in a series to turn parallel furrows simultaneously
- A combination of several plows with blades in one frame, operated as a machine
Further reading
- “gangplow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “gangplow”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “gangplow”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 2451, column 2.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “gangplow”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 2451, column 2.
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