seisreach
-ich, -ichean, sf Plough with six horses. 2 Team of horses. The team was reduced successively from six to four and then to two and the word keeping pace with the reduction is now applied e.g. in Arran, W. of Ross Lorn &c to a pair of horses. The six-horse plough was in use in Ireland about 1000 AD and was employed in Scotland till a comparatively recent date. It was also in use in England in the lifetime of persons now living. The wooden plough continued in use well within living memory but that was probably of an improved type. The horses were yoked abreast in the same manner as in the four-horse ploughs used in Sutherland and Caithness in the middle of the 12th century. The elder-wood was considered superior to all other kinds for making the working parts of a wooden plough. Seisreach fearainn, a plough-land.
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