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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 1 1 Browse Search
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rawing-stowce or windlass. Turn-wrest plow. （Husbandry.) a. An English plow of large size, and without a mold-board, adapted to be drawn by four horses and as many more as the farmer can spare. It burrows in the soil of the county (Kent), where it still maintains its hold upon the affections of the people, and is apparently prized on account of its lifting and tearing action in a soil which would be too much compacted by the pressure of a sole, landside, and mold-board. Improved Kentish turn-wrest plow. We should esteem it a regular horse-killer, and could use it nowhere but in grubbing, and then it should be drawn by three or four yokes of oxen. The name turn-wrest has clung to it for two and a half centuries, through all the scoffing and affected admiration it has excited, and means that the wrest or direction in which the soil is wrenched or pushed can be turned or changed. This is accomplished by shifting the colter to one side or the other, so as to divide th