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Arcane Implements of Medieval Tillage
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Lever arm device to thresh grain with rhythmic motion
  • 2. Enclosed working ground adjoining the barnyard thoroughfare
  • 3. Neatly laid row of hay, awaiting the sickle’s kiss
  • 5. Old English term for a defeatured plow, challenging soil’s crust
  • 6. Tool for uprooting weeds or preparing layers of hard earth
  • 10. Tined instrument for airborne forage, yet not a pitchfork
  • 12. Coarsely woven sackcloth often used to carry seed or grain
  • 14. Weighted mallet wielded for threshing in rhythmic cadence
  • 18. Wooden crosspiece binding draft animals for synchronized toil
Down
  • 4. Iron cross that balanced the millstone’s grind
  • 7. Medieval scythe’s handle or the assembly for wielding it
  • 8. Ancient scratch plow that barely inverts soil layers
  • 9. Container to collect the pale residue from milk, used near fields
  • 11. Winter transport tool doubling as crop-drag in frozen fields
  • 13. Knife-like blade slicing soil ahead of the plowshare
  • 15. Sharpened stick to open precise holes for seed planting
  • 16. Small trough-like implement for feeding beasts tethered near barns
  • 17. Large grain winnowing fan for separating chaff from kernel
  • 19. Tooth-laden frame for crumbling clods, smoothing earth’s face

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