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A plough or plow is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may
Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough
Water buffalo used for ploughing in Laos
13th century depiction of a ploughing
Ancient Egyptian ard, c. 1200 BCE. (Burial chamber of Sennedjem)
Ard (plough)
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The ard, ard plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical share that traces a shallow
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…modern dialectal sullow), Old High German medela, geiza, huohilī(n), Old Norse arðr (Swedish årder), and Gothic hōha, all presumably referring to the ard (scratch plough). The modern word comes from the Old Norse plógr, and is therefore Germanic, but it appears relatively late (it is not attested in…
Single-handled bow ard: (1) yoke, (2) draft-pole, (3) draft-beam, (4) stilt, (5) share
Score marks (ard marks) from a rip ard on a boulder in a clearance cairn.
Church of Santa María la Real de Nieva, Segovia province, Spain.