breastplow

[brest-plou]

breast·plow

[brest-plou]
noun Agriculture.
a cultivator moved forward by a person pressing the chest against a crossbar.
Also, especially British, breast·plough.


Origin:
1715–25; breast + plow
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Breastplow is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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