PLOUGH


Meaning of PLOUGH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ plaʊ ]

( ploughs, ploughing, ploughed)

Note: in AM, use 'plow'

1.

A plough is a large farming tool with sharp blades which is pulled across the soil to turn it over, usually before seeds are planted.

N-COUNT

see also snowplough

2.

When someone ploughs an area of land, they turn over the soil using a plough.

They ploughed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland.

...a carefully ploughed field.

VERB : V n , V-ed

• plough‧ing

In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.

N-UNCOUNT

3.

to plough a furrow: see furrow

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