Plow vs. Plough

Plownoun

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Plowverb

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Plownoun

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.

Plownoun

Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

Plownoun

A carucate of land; a plowland.

Plownoun

A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

Plownoun

An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Plownoun

Same as Charles's Wain.

Plowverb

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.

Plowverb

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

Plowverb

To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

Plowverb

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.

Plowverb

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.

Plownoun

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

Plowverb

to break and turn over earth especially with a plow;

Plowverb

deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression;

Plowverb

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

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.