snowplow

[ snoh-plou ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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

The ultrawide Snowplow shovel is ideal for cutting paths in unpacked snowfall on sidewalks and driveways.

Snowplows were in position Sunday morning, city officials said.

Yet a prominent cultural narrative for American mothers is a binary choice of Absent Monster or Snowplow Mom.

Materials found in snowplows include steel, aluminum, plastics, and fiberglass, as well as UHMW polyethylene.

Nurses will wheel vaccine to cars lined up in a county-owned snowplow garage.

A snowplow driver got the axe after posting a video of himself gleefully dumping snowdrifts onto cars earlier this winter.

Half-way to Granite Canyon the snowplow got off the track and one wheel broke, so a dead standstill for hours.

It had snowed in the night, and Buff Miles, who drove the village snowplow, was also driver of "the 'bus."

The only excitement was seeing the snowplow drawn by two horses, go up on this side of the street and down on the other.

Their progress was slowed here for the road had not been cleared by a snowplow.

Today, the first of October forty years ago, we drove the snowplow at home.

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