Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
ard | a kind of primitive plough. |
backacter | a mechanical excavator with an extension consisting of a bucket on an extending arm, which can be used to scoop up earth as it is drawn back towards the machine, aka backhoe. |
backhoe | a shovel at the end of a mechanical arm; (verb) to dig with a backhoe. |
berake | to rake thoroughly. |
breastplough | a kind of spade for cutting turf, with a crossbar against which the breast is pressed. |
buckrake | a large agricultural rake, often attached to a tractor. |
caschrom | (Gaelic) a spade with a bent handle for tilling soil. |
cheesewring | a cheesepress. |
cromack | (Gaelic) a crook, a stick with a curved head. |
cromb | a hook or crook; (verb) to draw out with a cromb. |
crummack | (Gaelic) a crook, a stick with a curved head. |
crummock | (Gaelic) a crook, a stick with a curved head. |
dehorner | an implement for removing the horns from cattle. |
dibber | a tool for planting potatoes etc. |
dibble | a pointed tool for making holes for seeds or plants; (verb) to make a hole with a dibble. |
gangplow | an agricultural implement. |
graip | a pitchfork used for hurling manure or digging potatoes. |
grasshook | a sickle. |
grubber | an implement for grubbing or stirring the soil. |
handstaff | a staff-like handle eg of a flail. |
harrow | a spiked frame for breaking up or levelling soil; (verb) to break up and level soil. |
harrowingly | (Adv.) HARROWING. |
hayfork | a tool for pitching hay. |
hayrack | a frame used in hauling hay. |
hayrake | a large rake for collecting hay. |
hedgebill | a bill for dressing hedges, a kind of long-handled hatchet. |
herse | (Obs.) a harrow. |
hoe | a tool for loosening the earth; (verb) to use a hoe. |
jembe | (Swahili) a hoe. |
kebbie | (Scots) a shepherd's crook. |
loy | a long, narrow spade with a footrest on one side of the handle. |
maddock | (Dial.) a pickaxe for loosening soil. |
mattock | a pickaxe for loosening soil. |
middlebreaker | a double-mould-board plough, aka lister. |
middlebuster | a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges. |
moldboard | a curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing. |
monotroch | (Scott) a wheelbarrow. |
mouldboard | a curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing. |
pattle | (Scots) a small long-handled spade for cleaning a plough. |
pettle | (Scots) a small long-handled spade for cleaning a plough; (verb, Scots) to indulge, pet. |
pitchfork | a fork for tossing hay; (verb) to toss with a pitchfork. |
pleuch | (Scots) a plough; (verb) to plough. |
pleugh | (Scots) a plough; (verb) to plough. |
plough | an instrument for turning up the soil in ridges and furrows; (verb) to dig with a plough. |
ploughhead | the draught iron of a plough. |
ploughshare | the cutting blade of a plough. |
ploughstaff | one of the handles of a plough. |
plow | a plough; (verb) to plough. |
plowhead | the clevis of a plough. |
plowshare | the cutting blade of a plow. |
plowtail | the end of a plough where the handles are. |
quern | a stone mill worked by hand. |
quernstone | a quern, a stone mill for grinding corn. |
rakelike | like a rake. |
reaphook | an implement for reaping. |
rickstick | a toothed stick for combing thatch on a stack. |
ridger | a type of plough which forms ridges on either side of the furrow. |
ripple | a little wave (verb) to ruffle the surface of |
rippler | a toothed implement for removing seeds from flax or hemp. |
rotavator | a tool for breaking up the soil. |
rotovator | a tool for breaking up the soil. |
sakia | (Arabic) an Eastern waterwheel. |
sakieh | (Arabic) an Eastern waterwheel. |
sakiyeh | (Arabic) an Eastern waterwheel. |
shovel | a broad spadelike tool for scooping; (verb) to scoop up with a shovel. |
sickle | an implement with a curved blade and a short handle, for cutting crops; (verb) to cut with a sickle. |
sieth | (Shakesp.) a scythe. |
slane | (Irish) a turf-cutting spade. |
snath | the curved handle of a scythe. |
snathe | the curved handle of a scythe. |
snead | the curved handle of a scythe. |
sneath | the curved handle of a scythe. |
souple | the part of a flail that strikes the grain; (verb) to make supple. |
strickle | an instrument for levelling the top of a measure of grain or shaping the surface of a mould; (verb) to level (a measure of grain) or shape the surface of (a mould) with a strickle. |
subsoiler | a plough for subsoiling. |
swingle | the part of a flail that strikes the grain; (verb) to beat and scrape (flax or hemp) with a swingle. |
swiple | the part of a flail that strikes the grain. |
swipple | the part of a flail that strikes the grain. |
threshel | a flail. |
tushkar | (ON) a turf-spade. |
tushker | (ON) a turf-spade. |
tuskar | (ON) a turf-spade. |
tusker | (ON) a turf-spade. |
twiscar | (ON) a turf-spade. |
wainage | (Hist.) the team and implements needed for the cultivation of land. |
wecht | (Scots) an instrument for winnowing or measuring grain; (verb) to winnow. |