noun fig.: agriculture; husbandry.
2. plough ·noun ·same·as charles's wain.
3. plough ·noun a carucate of land; a plowland.
4. plough ·noun & ·v ·see plow.
5. plough ·noun a joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
6. plough ·noun an implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7. plough ·vt to trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. ·see plow, ·noun, 5.
8. plough ·vt to furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
9. plough ·vi 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.
10. plough ·vt 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.
11. plough ·noun 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. plough ·noun 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.