plough

nom

1. 1

   A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

   Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake

   The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.

   The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.

2. 2

   Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. A joiner's plane for making grooves.

3. 3

   Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

4. 4

   The use of a plough; tillage.

   If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.

5. 5

   A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

6. 6

   Variante de snowploughAny of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. Ellipsis of snowplough.

   It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]

7. 7

   Variante de PloughAlternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)

   Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough.

   To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion.

   Across the Atlantic, what we call the Big Dipper has been called many other names. In England, this grouping of stars is seen as the plough.

   Consider the Big Dipper, or as it is also known, the plough or the wagon.

8. 8

   Variante de ploughlandAlternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.

   c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.

verbe

1. 1

   To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.

   I've still got to plough that field.

2. 2

   To use a plough.

   Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.

3. 3

   To move with force.

   Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

   Wolves continued to plough forward as young Belgian midfielder Mujangi Bia and Ronald Zubar both hit shots wide from good positions.

   Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.

4. 4

   To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.

   My brother ploughed me over.

   Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.

5. 5

   To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

   Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.

6. 6

   To run through, as in sailing.

   With speed we plough the watery way.

7. 7

   To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   obsolèteTo fail (a student).

   The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.

   You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.

   I knew one of that lot at Corpus; in fact, we were crammed by the same tutor for "smalls," and both got ploughed.

10. 10

    To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.

    I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.

    If you don't use rubbers when you're plowing someone's throat, don't bother answering this ad.

Formes

pluriel

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passé

ploughed

participe passé

ploughed

participe présent

ploughing

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