Farm machinery

Most machines on this list are named the German way, from a verb stem and a noun: die Drillmaschine, das Dreschwerk, die Kreiselegge. One is not. Der Grubber, the tined implement that loosens the soil without turning it over, was borrowed from English, where a grubber was anything that grubs, that digs up roots and stumps. German kept the word for the machine, gave it the plural die Grubber and made a verb of it, grubbern, while English itself now mostly calls the implement a cultivator. The rest of the list follows the problem every field machine shares: it is heavy, and the ground under it is soft. Hence the words for weight and contact — die Radlast, der Bodendruck, die Befahrbarkeit — and the word for keeping the wheels to the same few strips of a field, die Fahrgasse.