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/plˈaʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Plough, Plow v. t. (past & past part. plowed or ploughed; pres. part. plowing or ploughing)

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.

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."

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

(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.

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Etymology of 'Plowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... great business of all was fur trading and the care of their little plots of ground. The women kept their homes 25 in order, tended their gardens, and helped with the plowing and the harvesting. The men were the protectors of the community. Some were soldiers, some were traders, but most were engaged in hunting and in gathering beaver skins and buffalo hides to be ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... past Cape Cod and was plowing her way towards the banks of Newfoundland. The strong winds were westerly and fast increasing to a moderate gale. The north star was hidden and now failed to confirm the accuracy of ...

— The Harris-Ingram Experiment • Charles E. Bolton

... that all lands which are worth plowing, which is not the case with all lands that are plowed, would be improved by draining; but I know that our farmers are neither able nor ready to drain to that extent, nor do I insist that it would pay while ...

— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French

... things that we see, Raoul; He has made us also,—poor atoms mixed up with this monstrous universe. We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in plowing the waves, in obeying the wind that urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything seems ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... is the best fertilizer of the soil. So old an authority as Aesop taught us that in his fable of 'The Buried Treasure,' but it was a terribly expensive sort of fertilizer in my day when it had to come out of the muscles of men and beasts. One plowing a year was all our farmers could manage, and that ...

— Equality • Edward Bellamy

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