breaking and removing frozen snow to expose the ground
Rare term for the agricultural or practical act of breaking up and clearing away frozen snow to uncover the ground beneath.
They broke up the frozen snow and began preparing the fields for spring.
Standard kanji spelling for the noun meaning snow-breaking.
Variant without okurigana; less common but attested.
Compound of 雪 (yuki, 'snow') and 割り (wari, 'breaking, splitting'), from the verb 割る (waru, 'to break, split').