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The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
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A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
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The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
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The use of a plough; tillage.
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Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
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A joiner's plane for making grooves.
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A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
verb
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To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
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I've still got to plough that field.
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To use a plough.
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Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
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To have sex with, penetrate.
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To move with force.
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Trucks plowed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
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To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
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To run through, as in sailing.
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To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
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(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.
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(university slang) To fail (a student).
noun
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Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed
Examples of plows in a Sentence
Weaving his personal journey with his revelations about Chinese education, Gardner plows new ground for thinking about and fostering creativity.
They also use horse drawn plows to cultivate their fields for farming.
Keep to main roads and only drive after snow plows and sanders have done their job.
If you look back across the span of time, you see wood plows being used in 4000 BC, then irrigation five hundred years later.
The chief thing in his eyes was not the nitrogen in the soil, nor the oxygen in the air, nor manures, nor special plows, but that most important agent by which nitrogen, oxygen, manure, and plow were made effective-- the peasant laborer.
The return trip from Grand Junction had taken Dean twice the usual two hours, a slalom of ditched autos, snow plows, ice and stopped traffic.