ploughedplowedadj.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1162 (MED) The Plowed Oxe in wynter stalleth.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. iv. 26 The plowed felde was become waist.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis iv. 51 Or did I his teeth in ploughed pasture spred?

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 214 Bushy woods, and forrest ground, With plowed lands, and pasture fields.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ii. sig. Aa4^v We began to Traverse certain plow'd Lands.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. cx. 312 To be forc'd to back an untam'd Colt upon the plough'd Lands.

1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. II. 15 The Surface of every Plowed Field.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. ix. 106 It was noon, when I sled from the ploughed field.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 619 When ploughed lands are to be laid down for meadow or pasture.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Let. Oct. (1946) IV. 426 I had time to think about other things as we plodded over the turnips and ploughed lands.

1909 Chatterbox 158/1 He ran across a ploughed field, ascended an incline, and on the summit halted.

1983 J. Gordon Edge of World ii. 13 She stumbled in the dry, ploughed earth under the trees.

2001 K. Guerrier Encycl. Quilting & Patchwork Techniques 68/1 Toning colours might be used, for instance a combination of greens, to create realistic areas such as a ploughed field in a pictorial quilt.

1853 Househ. Words 24 Sept. 75/2 For the one word drunk,..I find..unauthorized or slang equivalents..on the re-raw, groggy, ploughed, cut, and in his cups.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 138/2 Ploughed (common), drunk.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 174 One who is in the more extreme states of drunkenness is referred to as: plowed.

1985 G. V. Higgins Penance for Jerry Kennedy xxvi. 208 I did not get drunk... You and Frank did. You got absolutely plowed.

1992 Utne Reader Nov. 66/2 Drink only half-glasses of wine... Even if you get really plowed, you'll still come out sounding a lot more controlled than you are.

1930 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 3 478 The belief that plowed-back earnings will cause profits to increase at a compound rate.

2002 E. McLaney & P. Atrill Accounting (rev. ed.) iv. 107 These ploughed-back profits create most of a typical company's reserves.

1851 J. F. W. Johnston Lect. Applic. Chem. & Geol. to Agric. 353 Mr. Wharton..has obtained an excellent crop of potatoes from newly ploughed-out land by manuring with wood ashes only.

1945 Geogr. Jrnl. 105 54 Cemeteries occur at Eynsham, where ploughed-out barrows of two kinds have been revealed by the circular crop-markings of their ditches.

1950 Oxoniensia 15 7 Ploughed-out field-systems appear on air-photographs as a network of white lines which can often be recognized to some extent on the ground by bands of broken chalk and flints.

2003 Oxoniensia 67 13 A number of larger circular cropmarks..probably represent ploughed-out round barrows.

1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 14 Wee see the pretty rising Hillocks stand, Or as the furrowes of the plowd up Land.

a1684 Duchess of Newcastle Treasure of Knowl. i. 13 in A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. (1766) They go to sow the seed in the ploughed-up ground.

1790 tr. Ovid Metamorphoseon vii. 189 He then takes up the dragon's teeth in a brazen helmet, and strews them over the ploughed-up field.

1837 E. S. Wortley Hours at Naples 67 When slaughtered victims pressed the ploughed up ground.

1920 J. Masefield Enslaved 120 From these ploughed-up souls the spirit brings Harvest at last.

1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning v. 82 You can't turn plowed-up shortgrass prairie back into the original terrain.