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ploughing, plowing, vbl. n.|ˈplaʊɪŋ|
[f. plough v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb plough; the result of this, a ploughed furrow.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 73 In deluyng al, or plowyng, or dichynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 405/2 Plowynge, or erynge, aracio. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §8 In all maner of plowynge, se that thy eye, thy hande, and thy fote do agree, and be alwaye redy one to serue a-nother. 1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace xxii, One [Act] prohibiting the plowing with Horses by the Tail. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. II. 197 On sounding the plowings, I found them deeper. 1864D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 38 Columella urges, like Cato, frequent ploughings.
b. Carpentry. The planing of a groove with a ‘plough’; the groove so made.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 47 It is a good method to..unite the different planks by ploughing and tonguing. 1837Whittock, etc. Bk. Trades (1842) 103 Grooving or ploughing, by which a narrow channel is excavated out of the thickness of the timber.
c. Univ. slang. The rejection of a candidate in an examination; plucking.
1882E. J. Worboise Sissie xxxiv, He just escaped plucking or ploughing—I forget which Dr. Heavisides said—‘by the skin of his teeth’.
2. attrib. and Comb., as ploughing-team, ploughing-time; ploughing-day: see quot.; ploughing-iron = plough-iron; ploughing-land, ground, arable land; ploughing-match, a competitive exhibition of ploughing.
1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., *Ploughing-day, the day on which the farmer who has taken a new farm asks, and receives, the assistance of his neighbours' Draughts in getting the necessary ploughing done.
1755N. Jersey Archives XIX. 483 The whole is good Meadow and *Plowing Ground.
1636Massinger Bashf. Lover i. ii, In a cause like this, The husbandman would change his *ploughing-irons To weapons of defence.
1694Lond. Gaz. No. 2977/4 A Farm, containing near 160 Acres of Land,..most *plowing Land,..with the advantage of Commoning.
1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 196 The original *ploughing matches were warmly patronized by Mr. Erskine of Mar. 1845Ainsworth's Mag. VII. 369 Unfortunately, my lord [sc. a servant] got a premium at a ploughing-match. 1882[see match n.1 7]. 1949E. Blunden After Bombing 41 Here was a set of anglers, there the ploughing-match. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 17 Nov. 6/5 The 1976 Hampshire County Ploughing Match will be at Upper Silkstead Farm, Poles Lane, Otterbourne, next Saturday.
a1715Burnet Own Time (1766) II. 25 Vexed to see such waste made upon their estates, in *plowing time especially. 1896Manning in Cath. Mag. Mar. 187 The next three or four years of your life..are like the ploughing-time and the sowing-time in the year. |