Plow

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  • noun. A farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.
  • noun. An implement or machine designed to move earth, snow, or other material by means of a strong blade.
  • noun. undefined
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To break and turn over (earth) with a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To form (a furrow, for example) with a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To form furrows in with a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To form wrinkles or creases in.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move or clear (snow, for example) by means of a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To clear (an area) of snow or other material by means of a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To make or form with driving force.
  • intransitive verb. To progress through (water).
  • intransitive verb. To have intercourse with (another). Used of a man.
  • intransitive verb. To break and turn up earth with a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To move or clear material such as snow with a plow.
  • intransitive verb. To admit of plowing.
  • intransitive verb. To move or progress with driving force.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed laboriously; plod.
  • phrasal verb. To reinvest (earnings or profits) in one's business.
  • phrasal verb. To block or isolate by plowing snow across ways of egress.
  • phrasal verb. To strike with force.
  • phrasal verb. To begin to eat (food) with eagerness.
  • phrasal verb. To turn or force (crops or manure, for example) into the soil with a plow.
  • phrasal verb. To overwhelm, as with burdens.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To turn up with a plow; till.
  • To make furrows, grooves, or ridges in, as with a plow; furrow; figuratively, to move through like a plow; make one's way through.
  • To effect as with a plow; traverse like a plow.
  • To trim or square, as the edges of paper, with a plow. See plow, n., 3 .
  • To cut or gash (a fish) with the plow or rimmer.
  • To reject, as a candidate in an examination; pluck.
  • To turn up the soil with a plow; till the soil with a plow.
  • In carpentry, to groove the edge of (a board) in tonguing and grooving.
  • To turn over (grain) in malting, so as to expose fresh surfaces to the air and equalize temperature.
  • noun. An agri cultural implement, drawn by animals or moved by steam-power, used to cut the ground and turn it up so as to prepare it for the reception of seeds.
  • noun. Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture.
  • noun. A tool that furrows, grooves, planes, cuts, or otherwise acts by pushing or shoving, like a plow, , , ,
  • noun. A plowland.
  • noun. A plow which can be adjusted to turn a furrow either to the right or to the left. Also called drillplow, reversible plow, and turningmold-board plow.
  • noun. A plow having a wheel in the space between the land-side and the mold-board, reducing the friction of the plow by bearing the weight. E. H. Knight. (See also balance-plow, ice-plow, prairie-plow, snow-plow, sodplow.)
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An arm and wooden mold-board, shod with leather, two of which in a gunpowder-incorporating mill serve to draw the mixture of niter, sulphur, and charcoal into the track of the heavy edge-runners.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. 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.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
  • noun. A carucate of land; a plowland.
  • noun. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
  • noun. An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
  • noun. Same as Charles's Wain.
  • noun. a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc.