plough

CEFRB1

/plaʊ/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A farming tool used to turn over soil.

  2. 02

    verb

    To turn over soil with a plough.

Examples

  • Better to have one plough going than two cradles.

  • He exchanged a plough for a sword.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material., Ellipsis of snowplough.

  2. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

  3. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.

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In context

  • 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.

  • Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake

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Origin

noun

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.