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PLOUGH
plow, plough
(noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
plow, plough, turn
(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; “Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week”; “turn the earth in the Spring”
plow, plough
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; “The ship plowed through the water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
the Plough
(constellation, British, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.
Synonyms: Big Dipper (especially US), Charles' Wain (old, UK), Drinking Gourd (old, US), Northern Ladle (Asia), Northern Waggoner (old), Wain (old, UK), triones, septentriones (astronomy; archaic)
Proper noun
Plough
A surname.
Etymology
Noun
plough (plural ploughs)
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
The use of a plough; tillage.
Alternative form of Plough (synonym of Ursa Major)
Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
Usage notes
The spelling plow is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.
Synonyms
• (device): sull, zowl (English dialects)
• (unit of area): See carucate
Hypernyms
• (unit of area): See carucate
Hyponyms
• (device): ard, light plough, scratch plough; carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough
• (unit of area): See carucate
Verb
plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)
(transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
(intransitive) To use a plough.
(transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
To move with force.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
(nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(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.
(UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
Synonyms
• (make furrows): chamfer, groove, rut
• (have sex with): get up in, pound, sleep with; see also copulate with
• (fail a student): flunk
Source: Wiktionary
Plough, n. & v.
Definition: See Plow.
Plow, Plough (plou), n. Etym: [OE. plouh, plou, AS. ploh; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. plogr, 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. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.
2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. Johnson.
3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. Tale of Gamelyn.
4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
5. (Bookbinding)
Definition: An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
6. (Astron.)
Definition: Same as Charles's Wain. 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
Plow, 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.
2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.
3. (Bookbinding)
Definition: To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
4. (Joinery)
Definition: 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. To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
– To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.plow ahead, to continue in spite of obstacles or resistence by others.
Note: Often used in a bad sense, meaning to continue obstinately in spite of the contrary advice of others. plow through, to execute a difficult or laborious task steadily, esp. one containing many parts; as, he plowed through the stack of correspondence until all had been answered.
Plow, Plough (plou), v. i.
Definition: To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow Isa. xxviii. 24.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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