backfurrow

noun, verb — 2 senses

backfurrow

noun

Etymology From back- + furrow.

Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

Harrow sections are usually held together by bolts and projecting eyes which permit them to follow the contours of terraces and backfurrows.1977, Archie Augustus Stone, Harold E. Gulvin, Machines for Power Farming, page 210:

backfurrow

verb

Etymology From back- + furrow.

Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.

Before planting, an attempt was made to list the ground, the land being ridged with an ordinary walking plow by backfurrowing.1923, Jenkin William Jones, Rice Experiments at the Biggs Rice Field Station in California, page 56:

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