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English

Alternative spellings

  • plough (Commonwealth English)


Noun

  1. spelling; see plough.


Translations

Verb

  1. spelling; see plough.


Translations

io:plow it:plow hu:plow ru:plow simple:plow fi:plow ta:plow vi:plow zh:plow

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS.
pl[=o]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh,
Icel. pl[=o]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug',
Lith. plugas.]
1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or
other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for
bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil
for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining
plow.
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Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow.
--Dryden.
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2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson.
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3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.]
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Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
--Tale of
Gamelyn.
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4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
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5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the
edges of books.
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6. (Astron.) Same as Charles's Wain.
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Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds,
etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.]

Mackerel plow. See under Mackerel.

Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the
church. --Cowell.

Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the
draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9.

Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of
Christmas holidays.

Plow staff.
(a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning
the plowshare; a paddle staff.
(b) A plow handle.

Snow plow, a structure, usually [Lambda]-shaped, for
removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or
driven by a horse or a locomotive.
[1913 Webster] Plow
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), v. i.
To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the
soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
--Shak.
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Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? --Isa. xxviii.
24.
[1913 Webster] Plowable
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plowed
(ploud) or Ploughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or
Ploughing.]
1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till
with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow
a field.
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2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run
through, as in sailing.
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Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up
With her prepared nails. --Shak.
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With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope.
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3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a
book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
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4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge
of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive
the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a
tongue, etc.
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To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.

To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.
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WordNet plow
n : a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the
soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing [syn: plough]
v 1: to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer
Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth
in the Spring" [syn: plough, turn]
2: deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;
"This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of
Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of
China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, deal, address]
3: move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or
going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the
water" [syn: plough]
Moby Dictionary
all-crop harvester , backset , baler , bank , bean harvester ,
beet harvester , binder , break , breaker , canal , canalize , carve ,
cast plow , chamfer , channel , chisel , combine , corrugate ,
cotton picker , crab , crack , crimp , cultivate , cultivator , culture ,
cut , dado , delve , dig , dike , dip , disk , disk harrow , disk plow ,
ditch , drag , dress , drill , drill plow , engrave , fallow , feather ,
fertilize , fishtail , flute , force , four-bottom plow , furrow ,
gang plow , gash , goffer , gouge , grain harvester , groove , grub hook ,
gully , harrow , harvester , haymaker , header , hoe , hoe drill , incise ,
list , lister , lister cultivator , loop , middlebreaker ,
moldboard plow , mulch , peg-tooth harrow , planter , pleat ,
plow drill , porpoise , prairie breaker , press drill , prune ,
pull out , pull up , push down , rabbet , rake , ridge , rifle , roll ,
rotary plow , rut , scooter , score , scratch , seed plow , seeder ,
shovel plow , sideslip , skid , slit , snap machine , spade , spin ,
spiral , sprayer , spring-tooth harrow , stag gang , streak , striate ,
stunt , subsoil plow , sulky lister , sulky plow , swather ,
swivel plow , tedder , thin , thin out , thrasher , three-bottom plow ,
thresher , threshing machine , till , till the soil , trench ,
trench plow , trough , turn , turn over , turnplow , two-bottom plow ,
undulate , vineyard plow , walking plow , weed , weed out , windrower ,
work , wrinkle , yaw


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