plough

Meanings

Noun

• A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
• The use of a plough; tillage.
• Alternative of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
• Alternative of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
• A joiner's plane for making grooves.
• A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
• A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

Verb

• To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
• To use a plough.
• To move with force.
• To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
• To run through, as in sailing.
• To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
• 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.
• To fail (a student).
• To have sex with, penetrate.

Origin

• From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh, plough, plouw, from Old English plōh ("hide of land, ploughland") and Old Norse plógr ("plough (the implement)"), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz. Cognate with Scots pleuch, West Frisian ploech, North Frisian plog, Dutch ploeg, German Low German Ploog, German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh ("plough, furrow"); see sullow.