Definitions for plow

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plow plow

Spelling: [plou]

IPA: /plaʊ/

Plow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in plow (lopw).

Definitions for plow

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:

Origin of plow

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

Examples for plow

The horse has always been a tool for man, whether it was tied to a plow or pulling a carriage.

He said he had got to go up to Joe Charnick's to get his plow.

Think the Frogtown settlers rinsed their tonsils with something that was “too wet to plow and too thick to drink”?

This was something of which the yokels, or men of the plow, often complained.

I have put my hand to the plow, and it shall not be withdrawn.

But he had his wakeness same as a common man, and it was the plow Inn at Ramsey.

The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.

No matter: Christman and her conservative sisters remain unbowed and eager to plow ahead.

The only thing left is to tie her to the bed with plow line, but he wants her father to help him do it.

Consider, for example, whether it makes sense to plow ever-greater sums into college educations if wages are stagnant?