middle buster
- noun
- /ˈmɪdəl ˈbʌstər/
- Archaic
:
arado de doble vertedera
- 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 plow with two blades that moves soil to both sides of a central furrow
A plow that makes a central furrow and moves soil to both sides for planting
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
A farming tool with a curved metal blade that turns soil for planting
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.