Plough

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.

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