noun

1. a farm implement used to cut, turn up, and break up the soil
2. ☆ any implement like this; specif.,
   1. snowplow (sense )
   2. any of various tools for cutting a groove or furrow

Etymology: ME ploh < Late OE, akin to Ger pflug, ON plógr < Gmc *plog- < native Alpine (Rhaetian) base > Langobardic plovum

transitive verb

1. to cut and turn up (soil) with a plow
2. to make furrows in with or as with a plow
3. to make by or as if by plowing to plow one's way through a crowd
4. to cut a way through (water) a ship plowing the waves
5. to invest or spend (as money, capital, etc.): often with into plowing all extra dollars into an IRA
6. Brit., Slang to reject (a candidate) in an examination

intransitive verb

1. to till the soil with a plow; use a plow
2. to take plowing as specified a field that plows easily
3. to cut a way (through water, snow, etc.)
4. to advance laboriously; plod
5. to begin work vigorously: with into
6. to collide forcefully: with into
7. Brit., Slang to fail in an examination