middle buster
- noun
- /ˈmɪdəl ˈbʌstər/
- Archaic
- The farmer used a middle buster to create neat rows for planting potatoes.
Examples
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He attached the middle buster to his tractor to dig up sweet potatoes in the fall.
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A middle buster is ideal for breaking open the soil and making wide furrows for irrigation.
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A middle buster is essential for planting rows of potatoes.
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The farmer used a middle buster to prepare the field.
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The farmer used a middle buster to create neat rows for planting potatoes.
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He attached the middle buster to his tractor to dig up sweet potatoes in the fall.
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A middle buster is ideal for breaking open the soil and making wide furrows for irrigation.
Synonyms
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A farming tool with a curved metal blade that turns soil for planting
A plow that makes a central furrow and moves soil to both sides for planting
A plow with two blades that moves soil to both sides of a central furrow
A farming plow with two blades that moves soil to both sides of a planting row
A farming tool with two curved blades that turns over two long rows of soil at once
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'middle' (central) and 'buster' (thing that breaks or clears) give a partial clue that this is a tool that acts on the middle or central strip, but the precise technical sense as a specific type of moldboard plow moving soil to either side is specialised and not directly predictable from the parts. Because the compound yields a vague, domain-specific hint rather than a clear, generalizable meaning, learners would need exposure or subject knowledge to grasp the full sense.
Etymology
Middle buster is the name of a plow that breaks the middle of a field. The words middle and buster show the image: the tool 'busts' the soil in the middle and pushes dirt to each side to make a wide furrow for planting or digging root crops.