plough
IPA: pɫˈaʊ
noun
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- (astronomy, Britain, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major) [(astronomy, Britain, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.]
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide. [land that has been or is meant to be ploughed]
verb
- (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- To move with force.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- (joinery) 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.
- (UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
- (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
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Examples of "plough" in Sentences
- Britten ploughed his own furrow.
- It adopted the symbol of a plough.
- Operational and used for ploughing.
- Advantages of the mouldboard plough.
- Disadvantages of the mouldboard plough.
- They used plough, and used ox to plough the fields.
- The ard or scratch plough is a type of simple plough.
- There is land for half a plough, and there is half a plough .
- The manor had land for 24 ploughs, four of them in the lord's demesne.
- The rest of the wing continued, ploughing along the ground and through a hedge.