English Explanatory Dictionary

plough

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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. Ellipsis of snowplough.
  4. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
  5. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
  6. The use of a plough; tillage.
  7. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
  8. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
  9. A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
verb
  1. To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
  2. To use a plough.
  3. To move with force.
  4. To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
  5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
  6. To run through, as in sailing.
  7. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
  8. 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.
  9. To fail (a student).
  10. To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
name
  1. The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/plaʊ/ en-us-plough.ogg

Word forms

plough ploughs plow ploughing ploughed the Plough

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

Synonyms

sull carucate chamfer groove rut flunk pluck spin get up in pound Formal terms bed coit coitize dight enjoy feague go in unto go to bed with have know lie by lie with love mount occupy penetrate season seduce sleep with take Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with" Informal and slang terms ball bang bauf beep be with bone boff boink bonk boom-boom dick diddle dig out do doink drill eff expletive deleted fill frack frak frick frig fuck get into someone's pants get over on give someone one

Related words

disc furrow harrow rake till yoke

Derived words

ard plough breastplough fire-plough gangplough ice plough mine plough mole plough mouldboard plough plough-alms ploughbote plough-bote ploughboy ploughgirl ploughhead ploughhorse plough iron plough jockey ploughland ploughless ploughlike ploughman ploughpan ploughperson ploughpoint ploughshare plough stop ploughtail plough-tree ploughwise ploughwoman ploughzone pluff mud put one's hand to the plough ridge plough Scotch plough Scots plough seeding plough snowplough snow plough sodbuster plough swing plough trench-plough turnplough wheel plough overplough ploughability ploughable plough ahead plough a lonely furrow plough back plough down plough in plough into plough money plough on plough one's own furrow plough one's way plough over Ploughright plough the back forty
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