plough
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: ploughs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ploughing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ploughed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ploughed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've still got to plough that field.
That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
gloss: To use a plough.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
gloss: To move with force.
pos: verb
examples: Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
Wolves continued to plough forward as young Belgian midfielder Mujangi Bia and Ronald Zubar both hit shots wide from good positions.
Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but thankfully stopped short of the railway and the 1,500V overhead wires. A tripwire was installed on this section of Shenfield-Southend line to warn train drivers of instances such as this.
gloss: To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: My brother ploughed me over.
Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
gloss: To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
pos: verb
examples: Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
gloss: To run through, as in sailing.
pos: verb
examples: With speed we plough the watery way.
gloss: To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
gloss: To fail (a student).
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
transitive
examples: The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.
You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.
I knew one of that lot at Corpus; in fact, we were crammed by the same tutor for "smalls," and both got ploughed.
gloss: To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
vulgar
examples: I love just getting ploughed face down on my bed.
If you don't use rubbers when you're plowing someone's throat, don't bother answering this ad.
Related words: disc
furrow
harrow
rake
till
yoke
Derived words: 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
plough the sands
plough through
plough under
plough up
plough with one's heifer
replough
upplough
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