bull-tongue

Then, down the entire length of the ridge the cotton-planter had followed, its two little wheels straddling the row, while the small bull-tongue in front opened the shallow furrow for the linty, furry, white seeds to fall in and be covered immediately by the mold-board behind.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

It has been noticed earlier that before the war even agriculture was carried on with the roughest, least efficient tools, such as the "scooter," the "bull-tongue," the scraper, the sweep and hoe. 93

The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

One of dem niggers was fotching a bull-tongue from a piece of new ground way at de back of de plantation, and bringing it to my pappy to git it sharped.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

"bull-tongue" through the furrows of the sandy fields which lay around the log cabin at the base of the mountain.

The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

a hundred times, too, to be at home, with the old bull-tongue plough behind him, running the straight rational furrow in the good bare open field, so mellow for corn, lying in the sunshine, inviting planting.

The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

I'm goin 'to do that jest as soon as the blacksmith fetches my bull-tongue plow. "

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900