plough
Other words from plough
- un·ploughed, adjective
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How to use plough in a sentence
Weeds have “evolved to grow in unsettled earth and damaged landscapes”–ploughed fields, say, and bombsites.
The road was a bullock track, a swamp of mud amid the larger swamp of the ploughed land and jungle.
The Red Year | Louis TracyA pheasant got up across a ploughed field where in the mild season the young corn was already green.
Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry WardHence the furrows are not ploughed close together, for the roots when crowded impede the sprouting of the plant.
He built himself a house; he ploughed the land; and then he made a lime-kiln on the very borders of the fairies' home.
Our Little Irish Cousin | Mary Hazelton Wade
And brains at their best are only a ploughed field teeming always and forever with the worries of incalculable harvests.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for plough (1 of 2)
esp US plow
/ (plaʊ) /
an agricultural implement with sharp blades, attached to a horse, tractor, etc, for cutting or turning over the earth
any of various similar implements, such as a device for clearing snow
a plane with a narrow blade for cutting grooves in wood
(in agriculture) ploughed land
put one's hand to the plough to begin or undertake a task
to till (the soil) with a plough
to make (furrows or grooves) in (something) with or as if with a plough
(when intr, usually foll by through) to move (through something) in the manner of a plough: the ship ploughed the water
(intr foll by through) to work at slowly or perseveringly
(intr; foll by into or through) (of a vehicle) to run uncontrollably into something in its path: the plane ploughed into the cottage roof
(tr; foll by in, up, under, etc) to turn over (a growing crop, manure, etc) into the earth with a plough
(intr) British slang to fail an examination
Origin of plough
1Derived forms of plough
- plougher or esp US plower, noun
British Dictionary definitions for Plough (2 of 2)
/ (plaʊ) /
the Plough the group of the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major: Also known as: Charles's Wain Usual US name: the Big Dipper
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