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Plough

UK/plæʊ/ US/plaʊ/ uncommon obsolete uk vulgar
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

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verb

1.

move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

  • “The ship plowed through the water”
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2.

to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

  • “Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week”
  • “turn the earth in the Spring”
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Origin

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

Phrases

  • ard plough
  • ice plough
  • mine plough
  • mole plough
  • mouldboard plough
  • plough a lonely furrow
  • plough ahead
  • plough back
  • plough down
  • plough in
  • plough into
  • plough iron

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