plough

/plaʊ/
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Other forms: ploughed; ploughing; ploughs

Definitions of plough
  1. noun
    a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
    synonyms: plow
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    types:
    bull tongue
    a heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields
    moldboard plow, mouldboard plough
    plow that has a moldboard
    lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker
    moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
    type of:
    tool
    an implement used in the practice of a vocation
  2. verb
    to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
    synonyms: plow, turn
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    types:
    ridge
    plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
    disk, harrow
    draw a harrow over (land)
    type of:
    till
    work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
  3. verb
    move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
    synonyms: plow
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    type of:
    go, locomote, move, travel
    change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
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