Definition of Rototiller

1. Noun. (American English) a motorized cultivator having rotating blades ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rototiller

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rototiller

rotor coil
rotor head
rotor shaft
rotorcraft
rotorcrafts
rotors
rotos
rotoscoliosis
rotoscope
rotoscoped
rotoscopes
rotoscopic
rotoscoping
rototill
rototilled
rototiller (current term)
rototillers
rototilling
rototillings
rototills
rototom
rototome
rotovate
rotovated
rotovates
rotovating
rotoxamine
rotozoomer
rotozoomers
rotproof

Literary usage of Rototiller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Green Manure Production Systems for Asian Ricelands: Selected Papers from by Jagdish Kumar Ladha, Dennis P. Garrity (1994)
"The high-tillage plot was plowed once by power tiller, followed by two passes of a rototiller. The water table depth and soil moisture tension during GM ..."

2. Water Quality Indicators Guide: Surface Waters by Charles R. Terrell (1993)
"Strip Tillage—A narrow strip, tilled with a rototiller gang or other implement. Seed is planted in the same operation. 87. ..."

3. Direct Seeded Flooded Rice in the Tropics: Selected Papers from the by International Rice Research Institute (1991)
"When a two-wheel tractor is used, a moldboard plow is used for the first plowing and a rototiller for the second plowing at right angles to the first. ..."

4. Efficiency of Nitrogen Fertilizers for Rice: Proceedings of the Meeting of by International Rice Research Institute (1987)
""rototiller is a small hand-held tractor with rotating tynes. Mechanically rotating paddles draw it through the field. during the 1984-85 wet season. ..."

5. Soil Physics and Rice by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Effect of wet and dry soil tillage by a 2-wheel tractor-mounted rototiller on grain yield and weed mass density in Senegal (7). ..."

6. Insights of Outstanding Farmers by International Rice Research Institute (1985)
"Kim owns an 8-hp rototiller and a 5-hp multiple cultivator. He borrows a transplanter from his uncle, who lives in the same village. ..."

7. Rice Seed Health: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rice Seed by International Rice Research Institute, United Nations Development Programme (1988)
"Ricefields are prepared mechanically with a Kubota 4-wheel drive tractor and rototiller that can prepare 1-2 ha/d. Bulk seed multiplication plots are ..."

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