Plow /(plou)/

Plow

n.
  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.
  2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
  3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.]
    Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
    — Tale of Gamelyn.
  4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
  5. An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. (Bookbinding)
  6. Same as Charles's Wain. (Astron.)

Phrases & Compounds
Ice plow
a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc.
Mackerel plow
See under Mackerel.
Plow alms
a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church.
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 kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff
Snow plow
a structure, usually Λ-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive.

Plow

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Plowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing

  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.
    With speed we plow the watery way.
  3. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5. (Bookbinding)
  4. 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. (Joinery)

Phrases & Compounds
To plow in
to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
To plow up
to turn out of the ground by plowing.

Plow

v. i.
  1. 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.
    Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ?