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Ploughing vs Ridging - What's the difference?

ploughing | ridging |

As verbs the difference between ploughing and ridging

is that ploughing is present participle of lang=en while ridging is present participle of ridge.

As nouns the difference between ploughing and ridging

is that ploughing is the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting while ridging is a pattern of ridges.

ploughing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.
  • ridging

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pattern of ridges.
  • * 1853 , Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
  • I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings

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