backfurrow

plural backfurrows

1. agricultureThe line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow

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

   1977, Archie Augustus Stone, Harold E. Gulvin, Machines for Power Farming, page 210

present singular third person backfurrows · participle present backfurrowing · participle past backfurrowed · past backfurrowed

1. agricultureTo 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.

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

   1923, Jenkin William Jones, Rice Experiments at the Biggs Rice Field Station in California, page 56