bust the sod

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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plough, especially on the prairies and for the first time.

Quotations

1922

"[The] fellers that I brung into the bald-headed were busy bustin' the sod. . . . "

1963

At one time it was the skimpy oasis for a brave band of homesteaders busting the sod of the Peace River country.