Category:Plow

Plow, plough (plou), n. Etym: [oe. plouh, plou, as. ploh; akin to d. Ploeg, g. pflug, ohg. pfluog, pfluoh, icel. plogr, sw. plog, dan. Ploug, plov, russ. plug', lith. plugas.]

1. 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. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. Johnson.

3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [obs.] [eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. Tale of gamelyn.

4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

5. (bookbinding)

Defn: an implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

6. (astron.)

Defn: same as Charles's wain. -- Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [u. S.] -- Mackerel plow. See under mackerel. -- plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. Cowell. -- plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught Is applied. See beam, n., 9. -- plow Monday, the Monday after the twelfth day, or the end of Christmas holidays. -- plow staff. (a) a kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) a plow handle. -- snow plow, a structure, usually made for plowing through snow

Plow; plough Plow, plough, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plowed (ploud) or ploughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or ploughing.]

1. 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.

2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up with her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.

3. (bookbinding)

Defn: to trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See plow, n., 5.

4. (joinery)

Defn: 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. To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. -- to plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.plow ahead, to continue in spite of obstacles or resistence by others.

Note: often used in a bad sense, meaning to continue obstinately in spite of the contrary advice of others. plow through, to execute a difficult or laborious task steadily, esp. one containing many parts; As he plowed through the stack of correspondence until all had been answered.

Plow; plough Plow, plough (plou), v. i.

Defn: to labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow. Isaiah 28:24.