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plough

Pronunciation: /plaʊ/

The English word “plough” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
  2. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
  3. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
  4. The use of a plough; tillage.
  5. A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

verb

  1. To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
  2. To use a plough.
  3. To move with force.
  4. To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
  5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
  6. To run through, as in sailing.
  7. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
  8. 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.
  9. To fail (a student).
  10. To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian…

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