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Meaning of ploughing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting
  2. The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.
    uncountable, usually
  3. present participle and gerund of plough
  4. To reinvest (earnings or profits) in one's business.
  5. To block or isolate by plowing snow across ways of egress.
  6. A farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.
  7. An implement or machine designed to move earth, snow, or other material by means of a strong blade.
  8. Plow See Big Dipper.
  9. To break and turn over (earth) with a plow.
  10. To move or clear (snow, for example) by means of a plow.
  11. To make or form with driving force: I plowed my way through the crowd.
  12. To progress through (water): plow the high seas.
  13. Vulgar Slang To have intercourse with (another). Used of a man.
    Vulgar Slang

Equivalents

العربية الحراثة حرث
Bosanski orani
Čeština orání orba
Deutsch Pflügen
Ελληνικά άροση όργωμα
Español arada labor
Français labour labourage
Gaeilge arathar
Galego arada decrúa
עברית חריש
हिन्दी जुताई जोत
Hrvatski orani
Հայերեն հերկ վար
Italiano aratura
日本語 起こし
Latviešu aršana
Polski orka
Português aração aragem
Română arătură
Русский пахота
Српски orani

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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