DCHP-1 Online
bust the sod Slang 
plough, especially on the prairies and for the first time.
See also: sodbuster
- 1922 "[The] fellers that I brung into the bald-headed were busy bustin' the sod. . . . "
- 1963 At one time it was the skimpy oasis for a brave band of homesteaders busting the sod of the Peace River country.
- 1922 "[The] fellers that I brung into the bald-headed were busy bustin' the sod. . . . "