Noun: ard
Usage: archaic
Usage: archaic
- A simple light plough without a mouldboard
"Rather than cutting and turning the soil to produce ridged furrows, the ard breaks up a narrow strip of soil and cuts a shallow furrow (or drill), leaving intervening strips undisturbed";
- ard plough, scratch plough
Derived forms: ards
Type of: plough [Brit, Cdn], plow [N. Amer]
Encyclopedia: Ard, Ken