Bull Tongue (Noun)
Meaning
A heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Farmers in the southern states employed bull-tongue plows to till their vast fields for the cotton season.
- Since the introduction of the bull-tongue plow, tilling the fertile land became a faster and more efficient process.
- The mechanic's workshop had an old bull-tongue plow in need of restoration, left behind by a retired farmer.
- Their primary tool was the sturdy bull-tongue plow which they maneuvered effortlessly across rows of soft dirt.
- Tractors eventually replaced bull-tongue plows to keep up with increasing cotton yields in many regions.