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Crooked Plow (Portuguese: Torto Arado) is a novel by Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior. It tells the story of two Afro-Brazilian sisters, Bibiana and Belonísia, who experience a life-altering tragedy in childhood. The sisters live as tenant farmers with their family in Chapada Diamantina in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The novel won ...
Prevalent in northwest Scotland, the Scottish Gaelic language contains many terms for the various varieties, for example cas-dhìreach 'straight foot' for the straighter variety and on, but cas-chrom 'bent foot' is the most common variety and refers to the crooked spade. The cas-chrom went out of use in the Hebrides in the early years of the ...
All of the clods of earth raised by the plow were supposed to fall to the inside, which was accomplished by keeping the plow crooked [6] and by men following the magistrate and plow. [4] This procedure simultaneously established an initial city wall (murus) from the clods and its protective ditch (fossa) from the furrow itself. [1]
Itamar Vieira Junior (born 1979) is a Brazilian writer. He was born in Salvador, Bahia.He has a PhD in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia.His short story collection A oração do carrasco (The Executioner's Prayer) (2017) was a finalist for the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura.
A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil.
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A designed twist in the spire of old western town gate of Duderstadt in Germany An unintended crooked spire on St Mary's Church in England. A crooked spire, (also known as a twisted spire) is a tower that, through accident or design, contains a twist or does not point perfectly straight upwards. There are about a hundred bell towers of this ...
The ard, ard plough, [1] or scratch plough [2] is a simple light plough without a mouldboard.It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical share that traces a shallow furrow but does not invert the soil.