- A
plough or plow (US; both /plaʊ/) is a farm tool for
loosening or
turning the soil
before sowing seed or planting.
Ploughs were
traditionally drawn by...
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Scottish inventor instrumental in the
invention of the modern-style iron
swing plough in 1779–80. Brown,
Jonathan (2004). "Small,
James (bap. 1740, d. 1793)"...
- The
swing ride or
chair swing ride (sometimes
called a
swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo,
waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amu****t...
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Joseph Foljambe of Rotherham, England,
produces the iron-clad
Rotherham swing plough.
April 15 –
Moses Harris,
English entomologist and
engraver (died c....
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plough anchors have a
rigid shank, such as the Lewmar's "Delta". A
plough anchor has a
fundamental flaw: like its namesake, the
agricultural plough,...
- 1730 by the
lightweight Rotherham plough, an unwheeled, or "
swing"
plough. It was
advertised as
reducing ploughing times by a third, or
using a third...
- A
snowplow (also snow plow,
snowplough or snow
plough) is a
device intended for
mounting on a vehicle, used for
removing snow and ice from
outdoor surfaces...
- more dangerous, O my chevalier! No
wonder of it: shéer plód
makes plough down
sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves...
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important person does not deal with
insignificant matters"
arare litus to
plough the seas****
Desiderius Erasmus,
Adagia (AD 1508);
meaning "wasted labor"...
- out a
further patent on 30 May 1808 for
improvements in the
wheel and
swing ploughs.
Ransome was
joined in
business by his two sons
James Ransome (1782–1849)...