Plough

[plaʊ]

解釋/意思:

(n. & v.) See Plow.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.

(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.

(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.

(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

(n.) 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.

(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.

編輯:鲁弗斯

解釋/意思:

n. an instrument for turning up the soil to prepare it for seed: tillage: a joiner's plane for making grooves.—v.t. to turn up with the plough: to make furrows or ridges in: to tear: to divide: to run through as in sailing: (university slang) to reject in an examination.—v.i. to work with a plough.—adj. Plough′able capable of being ploughed: arable.—ns. Plough′boy a boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing; Plough′er; Plough′gate (Scots law) a quantity of land of the extent of 100 acres Scots; Plough′ing; Plough′-ī′ron the coulter of a plough; Plough′-land land suitable for tillage: as much land as could be tilled with one plough a hide of land; Plough′man a man who ploughs: a husbandman: a rustic:—pl. Plough′men; Plough′-Mon′day the Monday after Twelfth Day when according to the old usage the plough should be set to work again after the holidays; Plough′-tail the end of a plough where the handles are; Plough′-tree a plough-handle; Plough′wright one who makes and mends ploughs.—Put one's hand to the plough to begin an undertaking.—Snow plough a strong triangular frame of wood for clearing snow off roads railways &c. drawn by horses or by a locomotive; Steam plough a plough driven by a stationary steam-engine; The Plough the seven bright stars in the constellation of the Great Bear.

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