plow press (plou pres)

In bookbinding, same as cutting - pre , 2. [ plow-service (plou'sėr"vis), n . In early English tenancies, the service rendered by villeins or other tenants in plowing the lands of the lord's manor, or furnishing oxen to the team therefor. plowshare, ploughshare (plou's har), n . ME. plouhschare (= MLG. plōchschare = MHG. pfluocschar, G. pflugschar ); plow + share2 .] 1. The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the ground at the bottom of the furrow, and raises the slice to the mold-board, which turns it over; the sock of a plow. See first cut under plow . Countries by future Plow - shares to be torn, And Cities rais'd by Nations yet unborn. Prior, Solomon, i. 2. In an at . , the vomer. plowshare-bone (plou's har-bōn), n . 1. In an at ., the vomer.-2. In ornith ., the pygostyle. plow-shoe (plou'shö), n . A block of wood fitted under the point of a plowshare when not in use, to prevent it from penetrating the soil. plow-silver (plou's ilver), n. In old Eng. law, money paid by tenants and retainers in commutation of service due in plowing the lands of the lord of the manor. plow-sock (plou's ok), n. Same as plowshare, 1. Scott. [Scotch.] plow-staff (plou'ståf), n. [ ture. Thee lights starrye noting in globe celestial hanging: Thee seun stars stormy, twise told thee plowstar , eke Arc Stan i hurst , Æneid, iii. 528. ( Davies .) plow-stertt, n. [ME. (= D. ploegstaart = MLG. Dan. plovstjert ), plow + stert , tail.] plowlond, plowe - lond, plouz - lond (= D. ploeg land = MLG. plochlant = G. pflugland = Icel. plōgsland = Sw. plogland = Dan. plöjeland ); granted with the buildings thereon. The difference in early authorities as to the area is probably to be explained by differences in local customs of husbandry and in the arable ne of the soil, and especially by the fact that in some districts, and perhaps most generally, the plow was drawn by eight oxen, while in others it may have been drawn by four. It seems generally to have contained about 100 acres more or le . Compare oxland. The pris of a plouz - lond of penyes so rounde To aparaile that pyler were pure lytel. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 169. Jugum terræ , or half a plow land , is as much as two oxen can till. Sheppard, Touchstone. Others say that one oxgange of land contain eth 15 acres, and 8 oxganges make a plow land . Coke upon Little ton . plowman, ploughman (plou'man), n.; pl. plow men, ploughmen (-men). [ Piers Plowman (A), xii. 102. IMG:content-0449.png:[blocks in formation] stjert = Same as plow - tail .