plough

plough is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun & verb, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Plow. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun & verb. See Plow.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
4. noun. A carucate of land; a plowland.
5. noun. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
6. noun. An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7. noun. Same as Charles's Wain.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
10. transitive verb. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
11. noun. 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.
12. intransitive verb. 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.
13. noun. a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

    Synonyms: plow

14. noun. a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

    Synonyms: dipper, wagon, wain

15. verb. to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

    "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"

    "turn the earth in the Spring"

    Synonyms: plow, turn

16. verb. move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

    "The ship plowed through the water"

    Synonyms: plow

Synonyms

plow, dipper, wagon, wain, turn

Common word forms

ploughs, ploughed, plougher, ploughing

Words from these letters

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