meaning of plough

1. See Plow.
2.
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.
3.
Fig. : Agriculture; husbandry.
4.
A carucate of land; a plowland.
5.
A joiners plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
6.
An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7.
Same as Charless Wain.
8.
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.
9.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
10.
To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n. , 5.
11.
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.
12.
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.
13.
a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing


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