A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake
Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]
The use of a plough; tillage.
If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.
To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
I've still got to plough that field.
To use a plough.
The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
Later on, as I walked home / The Plough was showing, and Orion
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, *plōgu...
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Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
To move with force.
Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
A surname.