Plow

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Plow, n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS. plōh; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. plōgr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
•  A carucate of land; a plowland.  [1913 Webster]

  "Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five."  [1913 Webster]
•  A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.  [1913 Webster]
•  An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.  [1913 Webster]
•  Same as Charles's Wain.  [1913 Webster]

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 Twelth 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

Plow, v. t. 

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.  [1913 Webster]

  "Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up
  With her prepared nails."  [1913 Webster]

  "With speed we plow the watery way."  [1913 Webster]
•  To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.<-- ## = plow under --> -- To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.

Plow, v. i. 

 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.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
"Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ?"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Plow, US var. of PLOUGH.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Plow

n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.

THESAURUS

Plow

all-crop harvester, backset, baler, bank, bean harvester, beet harvester, binder, break, breaker, canal, canalize, carve, cast plow, chamfer, channel, chisel, combine, corrugate, cotton picker, crab, crack, crimp, cultivate, cultivator, culture, cut, dado, delve, dig, dike, dip, disk, disk harrow, disk plow, ditch, drag, dress, drill, drill plow, engrave, fallow, feather, fertilize, fishtail, flute, force, four-bottom plow, furrow, gang plow, gash, goffer, gouge, grain harvester, groove, grub hook, gully, harrow, harvester, haymaker, header, hoe, hoe drill, incise, list, lister, lister cultivator, loop, middlebreaker, moldboard plow, mulch, peg-tooth harrow, planter, pleat, plow drill, porpoise, prairie breaker, press drill, prune, pull out, pull up, push down, rabbet, rake, ridge, rifle, roll, rotary plow, rut, scooter, score, scratch, seed plow, seeder, shovel plow, sideslip, skid, slit, snap machine, spade, spin, spiral, sprayer, spring-tooth harrow, stag gang, streak, striate, stunt, subsoil plow, sulky lister, sulky plow, swather, swivel plow, tedder, thin, thin out, thrasher, three-bottom plow, thresher, threshing machine, till, till the soil, trench, trench plow, trough, turn, turn over, turnplow, two-bottom plow, undulate, vineyard plow, walking plow, weed, weed out, windrower, work, wrinkle, yaw

ROGET THESAURUS

Plow

Furrow

VB furrow, flute, plow, incise, engrave, etch, bite in.

Agriculture

VB cultivate, till the soil, farm, garden, sow, plant, reap, mow, cut, manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top, backset.