plough

Definitions

1. 1noun & verb

   See Plow.

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

4. 4noun

   A carucate of land; a plowland.

5. 5noun

   A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

6. 6noun

   An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

7. 7noun

   Same as Charles's Wain.

8. 8transitive 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. 9transitive verb

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

10. 10transitive verb

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

11. 11noun

    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. 12intransitive 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. 13noun

    a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

    Synonyms

    plow
14. 14noun

    a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

    Synonyms

    dipperwagonwain
15. 15verb

    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

    plowturn
16. 16verb

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

    "The ship plowed through the water"

    Synonyms

    plow