moldboard

English

Alternative forms

• mouldboard (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From mold (“soil”) +‎ board.

Pronunciation

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Noun

moldboard (plural moldboards)

2. A curved piece of metal on a plough, following behind the ploughshare, that flips the soil over.

   Holonyms: plough, plow < implement

   Comeronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel

3. An analogous part of a bulldozer that clears dirt from the blade.
4. (founding) A follow board.

Translations

curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer

• Breton: skouarn (br) f
• Finnish: siipi (fi)
• French: versoir (fr) m
• Galician: abeaca (gl) f, gueifa (gl) f, orelleira (gl) f
• German: Streichbrett n, Streichbrech n, Riester n, Wendebrett n
• Italian: versoio (it) m, orecchio (it) m
• Polish: odkładnica f
• Portuguese: aiveca (pt) f
• Swedish: vändskiva (sv) c