moldboard
noun
moldboard is a noun meaning “A curved piece of metal on a plough, following behind the ploughshare, that flips the soil over” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-L-D-B-O-A-R-D, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of moldboard is moldboards.
What does moldboard mean?
noun
- 1
A curved piece of metal on a plough, following behind the ploughshare, that flips the soil over.
Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
- 2
An analogous part of a bulldozer that clears dirt from the blade.
- 3
A follow board.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce moldboard?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-moldboard.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of moldboard
- moldboards plural
- mouldboard
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is moldboard?
Moldboard appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Moldboard in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense curved piece of metal on a plow or bulldozer:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does moldboard come from?
From mold (“soil”) + board.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).