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plough

DEFINITIONS OF: plough

1

n a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

Synonyms:
plow
Types:
bull tongue
a heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields
moldboard plow, mouldboard plough
plow that has a moldboard
lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker
moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow
Type of:
tool
an implement used in the practice of a vocation

v to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

Synonyms:
plow, turn
Types:
ridge
plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
disk, harrow
draw a harrow over (land)
Type of:
till
work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation

v move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

Synonyms:
plow
Type of:
go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
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