v. [CROSS- 6.] trans. To plow (a field) across the furrows of a former plowing. Hence Cross-ploughing vbl. sb.
c. 1644. G. Plattes, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 187. He ploughed [it] up at Michaelmass … and afterward cross ploughed it.
1759. trans. Duhamel’s Husb., I. vi. (1762), 15. Let the whole field be cross-plowed.
1842. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., III. I. 163. I immediately ploughed it in; and about Christmas I cross-ploughed it. Ibid. (1844), V. I. 40. As soon as the land is sufficiently dry it receives two deep cross-ploughings.
