rototiller
rototiller — noun
1. a garden machine with a motor that spins metal blades to break up and mix the ea
a garden machine with a motor that spins metal blades to break up and mix the earth before planting
Manuela pushed the heavy rototiller across the back garden to loosen the hard ground.
subject + push + rototiller across [place]
Before planting the carrots, Kenji used a rototiller to break up the dry clay soil.
use a rototiller to + verb
The rented rototiller dug deep and turned the grass into loose brown soil.
Yara borrowed a small rototiller from her neighbour to prepare her vegetable bed.
The blades of the rototiller jammed when they hit a buried rock near the fence.
- tiller
the shorter everyday word for the same machine
- cultivator
broader term; can be a hand tool, not always motorized
用法筆記
Subject of the verb is usually a gardener or farmer; the machine itself is the typical object of 'use', 'rent', 'push', or 'start'.