Definitions for moldboard

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moldboard mold·board

Spelling: [mohld-bawrd, -bohrd]

IPA: /ˈmoʊldˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Moldboard is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 270 anagrams from letters in moldboard (abddlmoor).

Definitions for moldboard

noun

1. the curved metal plate in a plow that turns over the earth from the furrow.
2. a large blade mounted on the front of a bulldozer to push loose earth.
3. a board forming one side or surface of a mold for concrete.

Origin of moldboard

1300-50; replacing earlier moldbred, Middle English mold bred. See mold³ (for defs 1, 2), mold¹ (for def 3), Examples for moldboard

This shows that the soil is slipping off the moldboard easily.

The moldboard was rough and the curves of no two were alike.

The moldboard of this plow is made of wood and covered with thick pieces of iron.

The disks, set at an angle, cast less furrow than a moldboard plow.

The end of the beam is fastened to a brace which extends to the back of the moldboard.

The model has a share, standard, and moldboard of metal with a gauge wheel on the beam.

The share and point are in one piece; and the moldboard is one piece.

Its moldboard was based on a design worked out by Thomas Jefferson.

The long fingers of the moldboard helped break the sod further.

This sod-turning plow has its landside, moldboard, and colter in separate pieces.