plough

== English == === Alternative forms === plow (US) === 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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /plaʊ/ Rhymes: -aʊ === Noun === plough (plural ploughs) (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting. Synonym: sull (dialectal, UK) Hypernym: implement Hyponyms: ard, light plough, scratch plough, carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material. Ellipsis of snowplough. A joiner's plane for making grooves. 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. Synonym: carucate c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana. ==== Usage notes ==== The spelling plow is usual in the United States and Canada, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Fiji Hindi: falaawaa ==== Translations ==== === Verb === plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed) (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. (intransitive) To use a plough. To move with force. (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in. Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut (nautical) To run through, as in sailing. (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough. (joinery) 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. (UK, university slang, obsolete, transitive) To fail (a student). Synonyms: flunk, pluck, spin (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner. Synonyms: get up in, pound; see also Thesaurus:copulate with ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === == Middle English == === Alternative forms === ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern) === Etymology === From Old English plōh, from Proto-West Germanic *plōg, from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pluːx/ IPA(key): /ploːx/ (Early Middle English, Lancashire, or southwest Northern) IPA(key): /plyːx/ (Northern) === Noun === plough (plural ploughs) plow ==== Descendants ==== English: plough, plow (US) (see there for further descendants) Scots: pleuch, plou Yola: pleough, plowe, plou === References === “plǒugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.