英和和英

語源

back- +‎ furrow

名詞

backfurrow (複数形 backfurrows)

1. (agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
   • 1977, Archie Augustus Stone, ‎Harold E. Gulvin, Machines for Power Farming (page 210)

     Harrow sections are usually held together by bolts and projecting eyes which permit them to follow the contours of terraces and backfurrows.

動詞

backfurrow (三人称単数 現在形 backfurrows, 現在分詞 backfurrowing, 過去形および過去分詞形 backfurrowed)

1. (agriculture) 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.
   • 1923, Jenkin William Jones, Rice Experiments at the Biggs Rice Field Station in California (page 56)

     Before planting, an attempt was made to list the ground, the land being ridged with an ordinary walking plow by backfurrowing.