[from prec.] trans. To use the bush-harrow upon (ground). Also absol.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 486. After the cattle are removed, the land is bush-harrowed and rolled.
1839. Ht. Martineau, Deerbrook, II. xi. 211. A man beside his horse, bush-harrowing in a distant green field.
1862. H. Kingsley, Ravenshoe, xxxii. 188. The meadows were all bush-harrowed, rolled, and laid up for hay.
Hence Bush-harrowing vbl. sb.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 481. The subsequent operation of cross bush-harrowing.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. xxi. 540. The ordinary means by which our forefathers covered their seed was by bush-harrowing.
