Plow
[plaʊ]
Definition
(noun.) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing.
(verb.) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; 'Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week'; 'turn the earth in the Spring'.
(verb.) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; 'The ship plowed through the water'.
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Definition
(n.) Alt. of Plough
(v. t.) Alt. of Plough
(v. i.) Alt. of Plough
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach a pleasing culmination. To see persons plowing, denotes activity and advancement in knowledge and fortune. For a young woman to see her lover plowing, indicates that she will have a noble and wealthy husband. Her joys will be deep and lasting. To plow yourself, denotes rapid increase in property and joys.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.
Editor: Nancy
Examples
- They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They plow with a plow that is a sharp, curved blade of iron, and it cuts into the earth full five inches. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We plowed along bravely for a week or more, and without any conflict of jurisdiction among the captains worth mentioning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If he plowed twenty miles a day, it would take 5,280 days. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A child sees persons with whom he lives using chairs, hats, tables, spades, saws, plows, horses, money in certain ways. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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