·noun Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
II. Plough ·noun ·same·as Charles's Wain.
III. Plough ·noun A carucate of land; a plowland.
IV. Plough ·noun & ·v ·see Plow.
V. Plough ·noun A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
VI. Plough ·noun An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
VII. Plough ·vt To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. ·see Plow, ·noun, 5.
VIII. Plough ·vt To Furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
IX. 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.
X. 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.
XI. 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.
XII. 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.