a. (sb.) Also 8–9 turnwrist, -rise, 9 -rice. [f. TURN- + WREST sb. (See also REEST sb.)] Turnwrest plough, a plow in which the mould-board may be shifted from one side to the other at the end of each furrow, so that the furrow-slice is always thrown the same way; a one-way plow. In the 18th cent. freq. called the Kentish plough.
1653. Blithe, Eng. Improv. Impr., II. xxix. (ed. 3), 203. There is another double Wheeled-plough, & it is called the Turn wrest plough, which of all ploughs that ever I saw, surpasseth for weight and clumsiness.
1766. Museum Rust., VI. 129. He had made one, which he called a turn-rise plough.
1794. A. Pringle, Agric. Westmorland, 34. The turn-wrist plough is about to be introduced into the county.
1812. Sir J. Sinclair, Syst. Husb. Scot., I. 156. A plough with a shifting mould-board, usually called a turn-wrest plough, admits of ploughing both backwards and forwards.
1846. Davis, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. II. 526. This I accomplished with a monster turn-rice plough made for the purpose.
1856. Morton, Cyclop. Agric., II. 628–30 [Various forms described].
1884. W. Sussex Gaz., 25 Sept. Strong turnwrist, round, snap, and strike furrow ploughs.
transf. 1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 624. The mountain turn-wrist snow-plough.
b. ellipt. as sb. Also attrib.
1778. [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., 25 Oct., an. 1775. A Turn-wrist is obviously preferable to a fixed-wrist, for cross-plowing.
1846. Clarke, in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. II. 512. The old Kentish turn-wrest.
1902. Westm. Gaz., 7 Nov., 7/2. In the North Kent Agricultural Association’s ploughing match … the variety of ploughs to be seen was surprising. The old wooden turnrise type was well to the fore.
