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Definition of Moldboard
1. Noun. Wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow.
Group relationships: Moldboard Plow, Mouldboard Plough
Generic synonyms: Wedge
Definition of Moldboard
1. n. A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
Definition of Moldboard
1. Noun. A curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer that clears the free dirt from the blade. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moldboard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moldboard
Literary usage of Moldboard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Power and the Plow by Lynn Webster Ellis, Edward Aloysius Rumely (1911)
"knowledged him as the inventor of the moldboard founded on mathematical principles.
Jefferson demonstrated that the shaping of the moldboard could be ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This last difficulty was overcome by the invention of an annealing process which
tempered and strengthened the moldboard without detracting from its wearing ..."
3. The Nature and Properties of Soils: A College Text of Edaphology by Thomas Lyttleton Lyon, Harry Oliver Buckman (1922)
"The moldboard plow brings about its effects because of the differential stresses
set up in the furrow slice as it passes over the share and the moldboard. ..."
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