Plough is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLOUGH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to turn soil with a farm implement, also PLOW
• turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plough, especially before sowing
• cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plough
• (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water)
• unearth something while using a plough
• (especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner
• advance or progress laboriously or forcibly
• continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop
• clear snow from (a road) using a snowplough
• fail (an examination)
• See Plow.
• To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
• To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
• To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
• To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
• move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
• turn over (earth) with a plough
NOUN:
• a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn over soil to turn it over and cut furrows in preparation for the planting of seeds.
• land that has been ploughed
• a snowplough.
• a prominent formation of seven stars in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), containing the Pointers that indicate the direction to the Pole Star.
• agricultural tool for turning over soil
• A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
• Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
• A carucate of land; a plowland.
• A joiner\'s plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
• An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
• Same as Charles\'s Wain.
• 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.
• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
• a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
• a yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to plow

Words related to PLOUGH

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Words that contain PLOUGH

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How to use PLOUGH in a sentence

• Putnam was a gallant hero, taken from the plough, but more fitted to head small expeditions than for patient labor in siege operations, or for commanding a great body of troops.
• The plough is hardly a more blessed instrument in America than the needle.
• The quantity of cattle was reduced, and, where an estate no longer covered the expenses of the plough and of the yoke that drew it, the hoe formed the substitute.
• No prairie-boy will ever carry about a hand-organ and a monkey, or see his sister yoked to the plough, by the side of horse or ox.
• To judge by the tone of general conversation, they meant, in their generation, to plough the Mississippi Valley from its head to its foot.
• It took the man two hours to plough the little strip of land.
• Two thousand head of cattle, chiefly plough- bullocks, were seized and sold from this estate.
• To plough the bottom of the Atlantic, in search of a ship that had gone down fifty years before, certainly seemed to yield fair food for mirth.
• Some of the cannon were buried in trenches, over which a farmer rapidly ran his plough, to give it the aspect of a newly-ploughed field.
• One represents the moment when Cincinnatus is invited by the consuls to leave the plough, in order to take the command of the Roman armies.
• The plough is there drawn by oxen, and the general style of cultivation shows a skill in agriculture superior to what is seen in other parts of the island.
• The face of the country is in large hills, not too steep for the plough, somewhat resembling the Elk hill and Beaver-dam hills of Virginia.
• They require little culture, and this may be performed either with the plough or hoe.
• They stood out strengthened and simplified now, like the image of the plough against the sun.
• The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter and all, And the star of the sailor, and Mars, These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall Would be half full of water and stars.
• With them they drag away the fallen timber, and afterwards plough the land.
• On the morrow I got another horse, but the brute, heavy-footed from the plough, was so slow that, save for the look of the thing, I might just as well have been afoot.
• He had put his hand to the plough, and he would not turn back.
• Dymock in his joy of heart, caused the plough to be brought forward, and fixed upon a table in the hall, for every one to see that day, Mrs.
• Margaret having been obliged to acknowledge, that it was this same plough, which had turned up the vein of gold, in which all present were rejoicing.
• It is no uncommon thing for the land to be taken from him before the time is out, if it has sooner become fit for the plough.
• The drills can be made with a small plough to great advantage, when a person understands it.
• The Emperor every spring repairs to his temple to plough a few furrows by way of encouragement to his people.
• He selected a piece of ground where he would have the shortest turns possible, and began to plough.
• Summer and winter it was plough, plough with him ever-more, except when the ground was frozen as hard as a stone.
• Will any one say, that Government offers the same facilities to John as it does to James? But as there is only one plough to be had, two cannot be lent.
• But a plough! It means that he requires to take off his coat and stop doing nothing.
• Abused blessings are withdrawn, and the abundance of the threshing-floor is changed for dragging a heavy plough or harrow.

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