Definitions for Plough

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Plough plough

Spelling: [plou]

IPA: /plaʊ/

Plough is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Plough (ghlopu).

Definitions for Plough

noun

1. an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
2. any of various implements resembling or suggesting this, as a kind of plane for cutting grooves or a contrivance for clearing away snow from a road or track.
3. Type Founding. (formerly) an instrument for cutting the groove in the foot of type.
4. Bookbinding. a device for trimming the edges of the leaves by hand.
5. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Ursa Major. the Big Dipper.

Verb phrases

1. plow under, to bury under soil by plowing. to cause to disappear; force out of existence; overwhelm:

verb (used with object)

1. to turn up (soil) with a plow.
2. to make (a furrow) with a plow.
3. to tear up, cut into, or make a furrow, groove, etc. in (a surface) with or as if with a plow (often followed by up):
4. to clear by the use of a plow, especially a snowplow (sometimes followed by out):
5. to invest, as capital (often followed by into):
6. to reinvest or reutilize (usually followed by back):
7. to cleave the surface of (the water): to make (a way) or follow (a course) in this manner:
8. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.

verb (used without object)

1. to till the soil or work with a plow.
2. to take plowing in a specified way:
3. to move forcefully through something in the manner of a plow (often followed by through, into, along, etc.):
4. to proceed in a slow, laborious, and steady manner (often followed by through):
5. to move through water by cleaving the surface:

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. plow.

Origin of Plough

before 1100; Middle English plouh, plugh(e), plough(e), Old English plōh; cognate with German Pflug plow

Examples for Plough

A harrow and a plough live there; they're sure to be at home on a day like this.

A ploughland was as much land as one plough with oxen could plough in a year.

I go out at daybreak, driving the oxen to field, and I yoke them to the plough.

With these were also granted 6,000 oxen accustomed to the plough, as well as supplies of seeds, &c.

She unbuttoned the mackintosh and spread it on the bar of the plough and sat down.

I order a swing-top bottle of German beer, and then Erik and I plough through a couple liters of red wine.

The action of the plough has often obliterated the traces of ancient barrows.

As I think I have remarked elsewhere, the Republic is founded on the plough.

The plough looks a bit glum, but she'll grow to like us presently.

Then he reached out both hands vaguely and touched the shaft of the plough.