Plough vs. Tractor

Ploughnoun

A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

Ploughnoun

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Ploughnoun

alternative form of ploughland|nodot=1, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.

Ploughnoun

A joiner's plane for making grooves.

Ploughnoun

A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Ploughverb

(transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.

Ploughverb

(intransitive) To use a plough.

Ploughverb

To have sex with.

Ploughverb

To move with force.

Ploughverb

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

Ploughverb

(nautical) To run through, as in sailing.

Ploughverb

(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.

Ploughverb

(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.

Ploughverb

To fail (a student).

Ploughnoun

See Plow.

Ploughnoun

a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

Ploughnoun

a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

Ploughverb

move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil;

Ploughverb

to break and turn over earth especially with a plow;

Plough

A plough or plow (US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses, but in modern farms are drawn by tractors.

Tractornoun

(agriculture) A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.

Tractornoun

(US) A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.

Tractornoun

Any piece of machinery that pulls something.

Tractornoun

(aviation) An airplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage

Tractornoun

A British Rail Class 37 locomotive.

Tractornoun

(archaic) A metal rod used in tractoration, or Perkinism.

Tractorverb

To prepare (land) with a tractor.

Tractorverb

To move with a tractor beam.

Tractorverb

To treat by means of tractoration, or Perkinism.

Tractornoun

That which draws, or is used for drawing.

Tractornoun

Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.

Tractornoun

a motor vehicle with a powerful engine and large wheels, used to pull farm equipment such as plows, harvesting machinery, etc., over farm land. Smaller forms of farm tractor are completely open, with only a seat for the driver.

Tractornoun

a motor vehicle with a driver's cab and a powerful engine, fitted with a coupling at the rear, and designed to pull a large trailer or semi-trailer on the open highway; - called also truck tractor. The combination of such a tractor with its trailer is called a tractor-trailer, and is a common form of truck used for commercial shipping of freight.

Tractornoun

A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push; - called also Tractor screw and Tractor propeller.

Tractornoun

An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; - called also tractor airplane.

Tractornoun

a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications

Tractornoun

a truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans

Tractornoun

a powerful motor vehicle with large rear wheels, used chiefly on farms for hauling equipment and trailers.

Tractornoun

a short truck consisting of the driver's cab, designed to pull a large trailer.

Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage, but nowadays a great variety of tasks.