Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
2. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
3. The use of a plough; tillage.
4. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
5. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
6. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
7. (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
8. (intransitive) To use a plough.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ploughs
• plow
• ploughing
• ploughed

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When Should You Use Plough?

Use plough when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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