raftering

1. (UK) The practice by which land is raftered (turning the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge).Examples: "It is nearly the same thing on stubble land as raftering is on grass land."; "It is open to doubt whether there is any great advantage, but as it is customary in the districts where raftering is practised to use a primitive scuffler called a Brewer's drag, which is made without any means of adjusting the separate tines, ..."; "Raftering is another excellent process."UKcountableuncountable