Pronunciation
- IPA: /plaʊ/
plough (plural ploughs)
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)
- 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.
- 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)
- Alternative form of Plough#English|Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major#English|Ursa Major)
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- French: charrue, araire (swing-plough)
- German: Pflug
- Italian: aratro, aratrice
- Portuguese: arado
- Russian: плуг
- Spanish: arado
- Spanish: Carro Mayor
plough (ploughs, present participle ploughing; past and past participle ploughed)
- (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
- I've still got to plough that field.
- (intransitive) To use a plough.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
- (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
- To move with force.
- Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene xii]:
- Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
- (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
- 1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book II”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646 ↗:
- With speed we plough the watery way.
- (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
- (make furrows) chamfer, groove, rut
- (have sex with) get up in, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (fail a student) flunk
- French: labourer
- German: pflügen
- Italian: arare
- Portuguese: arar, lavrar
- Russian: паха́ть
- Spanish: arar, labrar, barbechar
- Italian: solcare
Plough
Proper noun
- (constellation, British, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.
- Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles' Wain, Drinking Gourd, Northern Ladle, Northern Waggoner, Wain, triones, septentriones
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