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单词 to plough up
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to plough up
to plough up
transitive. To break up (ground) by ploughing; (figurative) to cut up roughly, furrow, gash, or scratch deeply.
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ploughc1450
to be at the ploughc1535
to take stitch1600
to plough out1643
to plough upa1895
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 2 His skaled brest ploughes vp the ground.
1590 T. Fenne Frutes f. 71 Hee caused the ground thereabout to be plowed vp.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 45 For he..hath plowed vp my hart.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xiii. 38 Let Patient Octauia, plough thy visage vp With her prepared nailes. View more context for this quotation
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler xii. 222 About All-hollantide..when you see men ploughing up heath-ground. View more context for this quotation
1718 W. Lowth Comm. Jeremiah iv. 3 The Prophet..exhorts them to Repentance and Reformation under the Metaphor of Plowing up their fallow Ground.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 172 The wild boar plows it [sc. the earth] up like a furrow, and does irreparable damage in the cultivated lands.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1245 If..the owner of a close over which there is a right of way plough up the way, and assign a new way.
1860 J. Abbott Amer. Hist. I. i. 43 When such a glacier has its lower termination in a valley it sometimes ploughs up the ground before it, and deposits stones.
a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) i. 8 Her decks were literally ploughed up with grape shot.
1918 W. Cather My Ántonia v. iii. 417 Pastures where the land was so rough that it had never been ploughed up.
1993 Holiday Which? Jan. 28/2 The Government..has passed laws to stop farmers who plough up paths.
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