Definition of Bull tongue

1. Noun. A heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields.

Generic synonyms: Plough, Plow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bull Tongue

bull nose
bull pine
bull ring
bull rope
bull ropes
bull session
bull sessions
bull shark
bull sharks
bull snake
bull terrier
bull terriers
bull thistle
bull thistles
bull through
bull tongue (current term)
bull trap
bull traps
bull trout
bulla
bulla ethmoidalis
bulla tympanica
bullabessa
bullace
bullace grape
bullaces
bullae
bullantic
bullaries
bullary

Literary usage of Bull tongue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"He did not have to adjust the bull tongue in the draw- head of the left or moving car, so as to make it enter the aperture of the ..."

2. The Cheyenne by George Amos Dorsey (1905)
"They turned toward the west and went to the southwest pole, which was again measured by Bull-Tongue, as was the first pole. The location of the place to be ..."

3. American Agriculturist (1844)
"I find that my cast bull-tongue, run after a good plow, and drawn by a good team, makes quite a good subsoil plow. Stir up your makers of plows and other ..."

4. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1846)
"A good plan is also to let the bull-tongue plow follow in j the furrows after the bar-share plow. This breaks up and loosens the subsoil under the rows. ..."

5. First and Second Reports of the Bureau of Agriculture for the State of by Joseph Buckner Killebrew, Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture (1874)
"Heretofore, the old fashioned " bull tongue " plow has been the universal ... The bull tongue, however, is regarded as a splendid implement in its place, ..."

6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1856)
"In about two weeks I plough with a bull tongue, twice in a row; then, in fifteen or twenty days, give it a good plowing with a corn plow, and a good hoeing. ..."

7. The First Century of the Republic: A Review of American Progress by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"The latter is pointed with iron, and may have been the origin of the bull-tongue plow, more familiar to men of '76 than to the farmer of the present day. ..."

8. The Principles of Judicial Proof: As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General by John Henry Wigmore (1913)
"He did not have to adjust the bull tongue in the draw- head of the left or moving car, so as to make it enter the aperture of the ..."

9. The Cheyenne by George Amos Dorsey (1905)
"They turned toward the west and went to the southwest pole, which was again measured by Bull-Tongue, as was the first pole. The location of the place to be ..."

10. American Agriculturist (1844)
"I find that my cast bull-tongue, run after a good plow, and drawn by a good team, makes quite a good subsoil plow. Stir up your makers of plows and other ..."

11. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1846)
"A good plan is also to let the bull-tongue plow follow in j the furrows after the bar-share plow. This breaks up and loosens the subsoil under the rows. ..."

12. First and Second Reports of the Bureau of Agriculture for the State of by Joseph Buckner Killebrew, Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture (1874)
"Heretofore, the old fashioned " bull tongue " plow has been the universal ... The bull tongue, however, is regarded as a splendid implement in its place, ..."

13. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1856)
"In about two weeks I plough with a bull tongue, twice in a row; then, in fifteen or twenty days, give it a good plowing with a corn plow, and a good hoeing. ..."

14. The First Century of the Republic: A Review of American Progress by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"The latter is pointed with iron, and may have been the origin of the bull-tongue plow, more familiar to men of '76 than to the farmer of the present day. ..."

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