plough

A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake

The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.

Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.

It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]

Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.

Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.

The use of a plough; tillage.

If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.

To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.

I've still got to plough that field.

That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

To use a plough.

Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.

To move with force.

Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

Wolves continued to plough forward as young Belgian midfielder Mujangi Bia and Ronald Zubar both hit shots wide from good positions.

To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.

My brother ploughed me over.

Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.

The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.

Later on, as I walked home / The Plough was showing, and Orion