pulley-plough
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A steam cable-drawn plowing system or type of horse-drawn grading plow utilizing rope-and-pulley mechanical advantage.
Example Sentences
- "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 Ufe"
- "there is no Occaſion for two Irons to be fixed at the Arſe or Tail of this Plough, as there is in the Pulley-plough, to gather up the Earth, and leave it in a Ridge Form on the Drill"
- "A steam pulley plough in action, dragging the plough across the field"
Inflected Forms
pulley-ploughs (plural)