Chiefly w. and s.w. dial. Also 7, 9 sul, 9 zull; 7 soule, 8 sewl, 9 sole, sowle, zowl, zarl. [repr. the stem of the oblique cases (sule, sulum, etc.) of OE. sulh SULLOW, or the later nom. sul, sūl. Somerset zill repr. OE. oblique syl(l for sylh (cf. sillow, etc. s.v. SULLOW).] A plough.
1607. J. Carpenter, Plaine Mans Plough, 109. The Soule … that Instrument wherewith being fastened to the Oxen, the Husbandman rippeth up his land.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 36. The Sun and the Sull are some Husbandmens Soil. Ibid., 332. A Sull, a term used for a Plow in the Western parts.
1766. Willy, in Complete Farmer, s.v. Turnep, Ploughing the intervals with a small sull, drawn by one horse.
1791. W. H. Marshall, W. England (1796), II. 276. The plowman carries, in the body of his sewl, a parcel of small rods.
1825. Jennings, Observ. Dial. W. Eng., 86. Zull,… a plough.
1883. Hampsh. Gloss., Zarl (zaal), a plough.
b. attrib. and Comb., as sull-breaking; sull-paddle = PLOUGH-STAFF.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 331. A Sulpaddle, a small Spade-staff or Instrument to cleanse the Plough from the clogging Earth.
1766. Compl. Farmer, Sull-paddle, a plough paddle.
1791. W. H. Marshall, W. England (1796), II. 276. A field … which has long been noted for sewl-breaking.
