snowplow

[snoh-plou]

noun

an implement or machine for clearing away snow from highways, railroad tracks, etc.
Skiing. a maneuver in which a skier pushes the heels of both skis outward so that they are far apart, as for turning, decreasing speed, or stopping.

verb (used with object)

verb (used without object)

Origin of snowplow

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; snow + plow

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Hold his hands, Happy, sez Horace, as full o fight as a snow-plow.
Friar Tuck
Robert Alexander Wason
The snow-plow, even with extra teams, could hardly force its path through.
The Blazed Trail
Stewart Edward White
What are you doing, yourselves, with all the engines you want and a snow-plow, and all the men you want?
The Cassowary
Stanley Waterloo
Engineers and firemen on weed-destroying engines shall be paid at the same rates as in snow-plow service.
The Great Strike on the 'Q'
John A. Hall
Ahead a billowy drift which 29 filled a hollow rose level with the wedge-shape framing on the snow-plow front.
Lorimer of the Northwest
Harold Bindloss

also snowplow, snow-plough, 1792, first mentioned in a New Hampshire context, from snow (n.) + plow (n.).