Plough Definition

plou
ploughed, ploughing, ploughs
noun
ploughs

Plow.

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(literary or historical in the United States) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
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An alternative name for Ursa Major or the Great Bear.
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A carucate of land; a ploughland.

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A joiner's plane for making grooves.

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verb
ploughed, ploughing, ploughs
To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
I've still got to plough that field.
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(intransitive) To use a plough.
Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
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(vulgar) To have sex with.
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To move with force.

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

(astronomy, UK) The common name for the brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

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Origin of Plough

  • From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland") and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)"), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough"). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou (“plough"), West Frisian ploech (“plough"), North Frisian plog (“plough"), Dutch ploeg (“plough"), Low German Ploog (“plough"), German Pflug (“plough"), Danish plov (“plough"), Swedish and Norwegian plog (“plough"), Icelandic plógur (“plough"). Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow"); see sullow.

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Plough Sentence Examples

  • The plough consists of several parts made of seasoned wood.

  • The plough used has a 16-in.

  • I plough and sow and earn my food; you should do the same."

  • Aloe, stump of a tree, as forming the original plough.

  • Another ritual, fascinating for the glimpse it affords of very old-world thought, is that of the Diipolia, the yearly sacrifice to Zeus Polieus on the Acropolis at Athens.6 In this an ox was slaughtered with ceremonies unique in Greece; the priest who slew him fled and remained in exile for a period, and the axe that was used was tried, condemned and flung into the sea; the hide of the slain ox was stuffed with hay, and this effigy of the ox was yoked to the plough and feigned to be alive.

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