plough

/plaʊ/

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

   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

   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

   type of:

   go, locomote, move, travel

   change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically