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Definition of Bull tongue
1. Noun. A heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bull Tongue
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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