plough
Plural: ploughs
Noun
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
- Ellipsis of snowplough.
- Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
- A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
Verb
Verb Forms: ploughed, ploughing, ploughs
- To turn up soil with a plough; to clear a path.
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To use a plough.
- To move with force.
- To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
- 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 plough.
- 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 fail (a student).
- To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
Examples
- He had to PLOUGH through countless dictionary pages to find ’QUIXOTIC’.
- I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.
- I've still got to plough that field.
- It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]
- My brother ploughed me over.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
- The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.
- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
- Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
Origin / 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
Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Dipper, plow, turn, Wagon, Wain, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, carucate, chamfer, coit, coitize, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fill, flunk, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, groove, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, mount, nail, occupy, penetrate, plough, pluck, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, sull, swive, take, tap, tup, wap
Scrabble Score: 12
plough: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordplough: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
plough: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary