To "plow the back 40" is to cultivate, for agricultural purposes, 40 acres of uncultivated land adjacent to some cultivated land. I don't know why 40 acres has become the standard value to use in this expression...
The phrase also has a sexual euphemistic meaning; specifically, to have sex.
It is an old cowboy term meaning to beat someone up.
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A furrow wheel is the wheel at the back of a plough/plow that resists the side thrust of the plough share and therefore helps it run straight,
Quarantine (segregating someone from everyone else until it is proved that they are healthy) gets its name because the period of segregation used to be forty days. The word is related to the French word for forty (quarante).
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I just saw a forty mule team! Meet me at the lower forty, son; and bring your own plow. Give me forty good reasons!
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In American English four meaning 4 and forty meaning 40.
something that you put on the back off a tractor to plow the fields. by flame 64.
Forty Hour Train Back to Penn was created in 2003.
A back forty is a remote part of a farm, or, idiomatically, the most remote or inaccessible part of somewhere.
It is an old cowboy term meaning to beat someone up.
JOHN DEERe's improved on Jothero Wood plow because he made a plow that had replaceable parts, but John Deere made a plow that he invented. His plow was a lightweight steel plow. But each plow had an heavy iron or wooden handles that was held on by slow-moving oxen's, or a horse. But they mostly used Horses back than because the Horses can get the field plowed quicklier than the slow-moving oxens.
The literal meaning of "keep your hand on the plow" is to continue working diligently and not give up. The figurative meaning is to persist in one's efforts, stay focused on goals, and not be distracted by obstacles or challenges.
The cast of The Back Forty - 2013 includes: Gary Huculak as Charlie
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