Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
plough-stilt [_i.e._ principal hale or handle] in his left hand, and in his right hand the _ploughstaff_ to break the clods.' See plate 32 (vol. i.) in Strutt, and the picture of a plough at work prefixed to Mr. Wright's edition of Piers the Plowman, copied from MS. T. [MS. R....
Ascham, in his Toxophilus, says, when speaking of the expediency of educating youths in singing: "Trulye two degrees of men, which have the highest offices under the king in all...
1. ii. 12): 'The ploughman yoketh oxen to the plough, and he holdeth theplough-stilt [_i.e._ principal hale or handle] in his left hand, and in his right hand the _ploughstaff_ to break the clods.' See plate 32 (vol. i.) in Strutt, and the picture o...
2. Canto 2, stanza 27; also in Heywood's Works, 1562, reprint 1867, p. 35.[E276] "What better to skilfull," etc., that is, what can be more profitable to the experienced farmer than to know when to be bold, that is, to venture the early sowing of barley?
3. Act ii. sc. 5.[E401] Thersites, the ugliest and most scurrilous of the Greeks before Troy. He spared in his revilings neither prince nor chief, but directed his abuse especially against Achil...