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Plough   /plaʊ/  /ploʊ/   Listen
noun
Plough  n., v.  See Plow.


Plough, Plow  n.  
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."
2.
Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
3.
A carucate of land; a plowland. (Obs.) (Eng.) "Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five."
4.
A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
5.
(Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
6.
(Astron.) 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.
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.


verb
Plough, Plow  v. t.  (past & past part. plowed or ploughed; pres. part. 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." "With speed we plow the watery way."
3.
(Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
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.
To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.


Plough, Plow  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. "Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?"





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"Plough" Quotes from Famous Books



... sold it to Dan McKittrick when he married me. We needed a man on the farm, an' he's gran' at it. There isn't a one in the place can bate him at the reapin', an' you should see the long, straight furrows he can plough. The child's the image of him, an' I declare by the way he's tuggin' at me ... be quit, will you, you wee tory, an' not be hurtin' me with your greed!... he'll be as strong as his da, ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... ordained by office to keep oxen: He feedeth and nourisheth oxen, and bringeth them to leas and home again: and bindeth their feet with a langhaldes and spanells and nigheth and cloggeth them while they be in pasture and leas, and yoketh and maketh them draw at the plough: and pricketh the slow with a goad, and maketh them draw even. And pleaseth them with whistling and with song, to make them bear the yoke with the better will for liking of melody of the voice. And this herd driveth and ruleth them to draw even, ...
— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele
... is o'er, Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry; Their children—look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west, ...
— An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, • Charles Sprague
... and one National School, the schoolmaster, with a family of nine persons, receiving the munificent stipend of eight pounds a year. These nine thousand people, depending absolutely upon tillage and pasture, owned among them all one cart and one plough, eight saddles, two pillions, eleven bridles, and thirty-two rakes! They had no means of harrowing their lands but with meadow rakes, and the farms were so small that from four to ten farms could be harrowed in a day with ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... still more. See those fields planted with apple-trees, in which I can distinguish a plough and horses waiting for their master! Farther on, in a part of the wood which rings with the sound of the axe, I perceive the woodsman's hut, roofed with turf and branches; and, in the midst of all these rural ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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