Meaning of plough | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
2. The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
   British, common, name
3. A surname.
4. Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. Ellipsis of snowplough.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
7. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
8. The use of a plough; tillage.
9. A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

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Examples

“Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake”

“The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.”

“The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.”

“It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]”

“If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.”

“Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough.”

“To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion.”

“Across the Atlantic, what we call the Big Dipper has been called many other names. In England, this grouping of stars is seen as the plough.”

“Consider the Big Dipper, or as it is also known, the plough or the wagon.”

“c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.”

“Later on, as I walked home / The Plough was showing, and Orion”

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