Plough
See Plow.
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.
Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
A carucate of land; a plowland.
A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
Same as Charles's Wain.
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.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
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.
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.
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Plough Quotations
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Will Ferrell
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
Jean Froissart
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.
Erich Maria Remarque
My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.
Andrew Taylor Still
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
Silvia Cartwright
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Plough Translations
plough in Dutch is omploegen, beploegen, ploegen
plough in French is labourer, charrue
plough in German is Pflug
plough in Portuguese is arado
plough in Spanish is arado
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