'Drill plough' definitions:

Definition of 'Drill plough'

From: GCIDE
  • Drill \Drill\, n.
  • 1. A small trickling stream; a rill. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills. --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Agr.) (a) An implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made. (b) A light furrow or channel made to put seed into sowing. (c) A row of seed sown in a furrow. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Drill is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, drill barrow or drill-barrow; drill husbandry; drill plow or drill-plow. [1913 Webster]
  • Drill barrow, a wheeled implement for planting seed in drills.
  • Drill bow, a small bow used for the purpose of rapidly turning a drill around which the bowstring takes a turn.
  • Drill harrow, a harrow used for stirring the ground between rows, or drills.
  • Drill plow, or Drill plough, a sort plow for sowing grain in drills. [1913 Webster]