Definition of plough in English:

plough

(US plow)

noun plaʊplaʊ

1A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn over soil to turn it over and cut furrows in preparation for the planting of seeds.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master.
- You can improve soil quality and aggregate stability by adding amendments like manure, but if you follow with a plow, you may do more harm than good.
- The last step is to attach the plow blade to the front tire forks.
- Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations.
- Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district.
- Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts.
- The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mould board.
- Motors and lifting straps can fail because crewmembers attempt to lift the plow while the blades are full of dirt and debris.
- But like those in the first, they sow this new seed in traditional furrows and with traditional plows.
- Ben uses a horse and a two-handled, V-shaped, walk-behind plow for turning the soil.
- If he made a plow blade just a little bit off, the farmer who bought it would not be able to till his fields properly.
- If you turn your heavy soil with a plow in fall or early spring, your tiller will be much more effective.
- The removal of the age-old plough from farming could lead to a major drop in pollution in rivers and lakes, according to environmentalists.
- We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines.
- As a result, small farmers can no longer obtain the plows, seed-drills, fertilizer, or high-quality seed they used to receive on credit.
- Traditional agricultural implements, such as the foot plow, are still widely used.
- Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
- In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing.
- One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
- This soil management practice reduces the need for excessive use of ploughs, discs and harrows.
1. 1.1mass noun Land that has been ploughed.
  she saw a brown strip of plough
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were scattered houses and tree-lined roadways, then open plough, then clumps of trees.
2. 1.2North American A snowplough.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night.
  A Bradford Council highways spokesman said the snowploughs would be able to drive over the Burley Woodhead speed bumps, but would have to raise their plough blade to get over the humps.
  The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next.
  There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’.
2British A prominent formation of seven stars in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), containing the Pointers that indicate the direction to the Pole Star.
Also called "the Big Dipper", Charles's Wain
3A yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor.
poses such as the plough promote circulation and the drainage of blood from the legs
Example sentencesExamples
- Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough.
- When these people bent their legs back over their heads in the plough pose, there was a greater risk of injury.
- Before incorporating the practice of Halasana one should master Poorwa Halasana (the Preliminary plough pose) under guidance.
- In the plough, your body is bent forward; this stretches your entire spine, particularily your cervical vertebrae and shoulders.
- The plow pose reduces backache and can help you get to sleep.

verb plaʊplaʊ

[with object]

1Turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plough, especially before sowing.
the fields had all been ploughed up
Example sentencesExamples
- The authority is concerned that land is being ploughed in order to prevent access to ramblers who will soon be granted far greater freedoms under coming legislation.
- The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter.
- Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one.
- The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
- It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me.
- I was an experienced farmer, able to plow the land, plant, fertilize, weed and cut the sugar cane.
- With the first of the summer rains expected at any time now and hence the need to plough the fields in preparation for sowing, the people do not have any seeds to plant.
- This meant they could raise animals to eat them or to use them for their milk and their hides, and to plow the land to grow crops.
- The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
- With each spell of rain, farmers plough the fields to prevent weeds from growing.
- Twenty ferries are slowly being replaced by bridges to connect orderly rural villages where man and buffalo still struggle to plow tiny paddy fields.
- If he decides to plough an area that has not been treated in the past ten years, he must consult with Duchas.
- He remembers that, as a child, while his father plowed a field in an annual ceremony, he was left in the shade of a rose apple tree.
- Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows.
- I plan to symbolically plough a field in each country in order to meet other farmers and learn new ways of working the land.
- Giving Ching some seeds from the south, Wang Lung tells him that he will help plow Ching's land with the newly bought ox.
- Hooper led his men over plowed fields in search of a place to cross the creek.
- To carry out the order, the policemen took a tractor and ploughed up the field.
- Another major emitter of pollution is farming, which releases carbon dioxide when the earth is ploughed and during other activities.
- Generally, surface compaction only affects one crop year if the field is plowed before the next crop.
Synonyms
cultivate, till, work, furrow, harrow, ridge, break up, turn up
1. 1.1 Cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plough.
  icebergs have ploughed furrows on the seabed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Soccer balls kicked so hard they plow a furrow in the turf are much more original than whatever new weapon or explosion Hollywood is sending out for mass market consumption.
  A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly.
  The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust.
  Within the vast enclosure of the Altar to the God of Agriculture, the Emperor ploughed the first annual furrow to bless the earth and preserve its fertility.
  John struggled to lift his head as his back plowed a furrow across Kathy's lawn.
  His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth.
  I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat.
  ‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed.
  My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow.
  York's medieval farmers who used to plough a furrow here would still recognise it.
  Makes it a bit hard to plough a straight line when you can't see anything.
  He still ploughs with the same enthusiasm of the man who ploughed that first furrow over a half a century ago.
  A rogue wind ploughs furrows across the Sound of Mull.
  Synonyms
  drive, bulldoze, cut, carve, make
2. 1.2 (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water)
  cruise liners plough the long-sailed routes
  Example sentencesExamples
  While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy.
  The ship plowed the water, its broad sail bellying before the breeze, the crew enjoying their vacation from the oars.
  He watched the liner ploughing the foam.
  Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies.
  The boat herself will tell you how to use the wind and how to plough the waters!
  He pictured himself on the rolling deck with the wind and the rain in his face and the ship rising to the waves as she ploughed her way westward towards the shores of the USA.
  Water taxis and tour boats plow the Riverwalk loop.
3. 1.3plough something up Unearth something while using a plough.
  some day someone will plough up the bomb and lose a leg
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘There are ferns on every farm and farmers are ploughing them up every day,’ he declared.
  Even today, farmers in Belgium and Northern France plough up an annual ‘iron harvest’ of unexploded shells from World War I, and occasional deaths do result.
2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner.
the car ploughed into the side of a van
Example sentencesExamples
- All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall.
- A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital.
- A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand.
- A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway.
- As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin.
- The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003.
- A car had plowed into one cyclist, and when the cyclist fell he caused a group of cyclists to fall, too.
- A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
- However, while trying to improve his position, Chevrolet driver Alain Menu hit him on the second lap, causing Jaeger to run out of road and plough through the gravel.
- Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles.
- She died in hospital from the injuries she suffered when three vehicles ploughed into the car on a busy dual carriageway near Malton.
- As I was crossing Main, a car nearly plowed into me.
- Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding.
- Then, last Wednesday, A Mercedes-Benz station wagon plowed nearly full speed into the back of our car while it was stopped at a traffic light.
- Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000.
- The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
- A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
- A 1.5 metre long slab of the brick wall was dislodged after the truck ploughed front-first into the door.
- A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus.
- On a cold winter night, a mother driving with her children loses control of her car, plows off the road and crunches into a rock.
Synonyms
career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run, careen
North American informal barrel
crash into, smash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack into/against
dash against
North American impact
1. 2.1 Advance or progress laboriously or forcibly.
  they ploughed their way through deep snow
  the students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises
  Example sentencesExamples
  Three or four times he cruised low over the sea to give me a glimpse of the whales as they ploughed through the water on their way to give birth in the Mozambique Channel.
  As the hurricane plowed across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico last week, it exploded into the third-most powerful hurricane on record for the Atlantic Basin.
  As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this.
  He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth.
  But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords.
  We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here.
  In he jumped, goggles on, and then proceeded to plough through the water doing a very bad and splashy front crawl.
  Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
  Relief only came - too late for some - on Friday afternoon when a convoy of trucks carrying food and water supplies ploughed through the flood waters.
  Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell.
  ‘It's easy in Ireland to stay off the radar and just plough away, doing what you do’, he said.
  I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’
  But even then, Newport would win the line-out and plough down field.
  My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades.
  The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps.
  I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it.
  So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1.
  The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway.
  Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
  However, nothing could have prepared them for the additional problems caused by heavy traffic as it ploughed through the deep water.
  Synonyms
  trudge, plod, toil, clump, push one's way, wade, flounder, press, move laboriously
  informal slog
  British informal trog
  persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, see/follow something through, show determination, press on/ahead, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
  be tenacious, be pertinacious, insist, be patient, be diligent, stand one's ground, stand fast/firm, hold on, hold out, go the distance, stay the course, grind away, struggle on, hammer away, stop at nothing, leave no stone unturned
  informal plug away, peg away, stick at it, soldier on, hang on, stick to one's guns, stick it out, hang in there, bash on
2. 2.2plough on Continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop.
  he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans
  Example sentencesExamples
  He will plough on with the inevitable consequence of more and more soldiers dead.
  The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post.
  But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next.
  So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels.
  Runners in the half marathon in March ploughed on through tough weather conditions and continuous rain to get round the 12-mile course.
  Undeterred he ploughs on, and all are soon engaged in jolly banter.
  ‘Don't worry about that’ said Daniella, and ploughed on with the next question.
  If circumstances change they just find a new rationale and plow on.
  So, I put my fears down to beginners' nerves and ploughed on.
  This came as such a shock because in public life one just ploughs on day after day, week after week, month after month and the years roll on.
  For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on.
  He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event.
  Despite recent closures of his restaurants, his culinary mission ploughs on.
  So I'm going to do what I always do and just plow on through and fix things as I see they need fixing.
  He just puts one foot in front of another and ploughs on regardless.
  However, despite having seen this scenario on so many occasions, councils continue to plough on with these futile policies, convincing themselves that ‘this time will be different’.
  But she ploughed on and landed a job doing interviews at this year's T in the Park, where she met fellow Scottish music television presenter Edith Bowman.
  I had to hug the microphone to my chest to stop it shaking in my hands and plowed on with sending up the outgoing president and all those associated with the conference.
  She took a breath and plowed on, despite her mind's pleas to stop talking.
  I think I'll plow on with it tonight and produce a finished version, then I can refine a version tomorrow.
  Synonyms
  persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
  persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
3North American Clear snow from (a road) using a snowplough.
he could use the car only in summer because the roads weren't ploughed in winter
Example sentencesExamples
- The road is plowed all winter so one can park a vehicle within 20 meters of the climbs.
- I'm quite snowed in, because the street is not plowed, so it's a good day to plow through those exams.
- It would probably take them a week to be able to shovel out a snowplow so it can plow the main roads, never mind the secondary streets.
- The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
- Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring.
- It was a snowy evening in Cleveland and the roads were covered and had not yet been plowed.
- Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled.
- The concern seemed to be limited to knowing where his home was and whether the road he was on would be plowed in the winter so that there would not be downtime for the rig.
- As the storm ended, Turner thought no day skiers would venture out, but as soon as Giuliani plowed the road, a line of waiting cars followed him back to the lodge.
- The roads had been plowed, so they would be traveling alongside the roads across the banked snow, and some of the still untouched snow.
- One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles.
- We'd be happy to distribute maps, publish guidebooks, plow roads, and build trailheads.
- In fact, we'd already been trapped once that winter and had had to hire a neighbor to plow the driveway.
- Of course the road hadn't been plowed yet, so as I approached it I picked up speed, hoping momentum and all-wheel drive would suffice.
- If Anderson had not allowed visitors to tour the park on snowmobiles, political pressures would most likely have forced him to plow the roads.
- As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites.
- The government's next responsibility is to plow streets so I can get out of my driveway and emergency personnel can use the streets.
- Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea.
- This can hold the frost in the road until the cold temperatures return and the road can again be plowed.
- Mind you, not every city in the country spends a bundle on a fancy main square downtown at the cost of plowed streets in the winter.
4British dated, informal Fail (an examination)
not many people plough Greats and become a professor of Latin
Example sentencesExamples
- Not many people plough Greats at 21 and become a professor of Latin at 33.

Phrases

plough a lonely (or one's own) furrow

Follow a course of action in which one is isolated or in which one can act independently.
it is more sensible for the college as a whole to act than for individual departments to plough a lonely furrow
Example sentencesExamples
- Many collectors are fiercely independent and plough their own furrow.
- Willoughby's determination to plow his own furrow gave every appearance of being a separate and discordant maneuver by radical back-bench peers.
- They are surrounded by some of the smartest, most cutting edge restaurants in town but, as Mills puts it, ‘Food-wise we plough our own furrow’.
- I think the experience of the last few years really has been that we do better when we plough our own furrow as a party.
- For far too long McGrath has ploughed a lonely furrow, been the shining light for Waterford without the adequate support but not this year.
- Elected to the Dáil in 1981, he has won the respect of many, at times ploughing a lonely furrow as an unabashed socialist and campaigner on international issues.
- They're so divorced from any other music right now, plowing their own furrow, yet still intimately connected to the fabric of contemporary culture.
- McMurdo shrugs happily and says she prefers to plough her own furrow unhindered by media hype.
- Since then Alison has been in and out of the public spotlight, but has always ploughed her own furrow through the music wilderness.
- A latecomer to rugby, he has always ploughed his own furrow.

put (or set) one's hand to the plough

Embark on a task.
she needed a rest, but she had set her hand to the plough
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no room for nostalgia, no looking back once we have put our hand to the plough.
- The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men.
Synonyms
make a start, begin, make a beginning, take the first step, lay the first stone, make the first move, get going, go ahead, set things moving, take something forward, buckle down, buckle to, turn to, put one's shoulder to the wheel, put one's hand to the plough, get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling

Phrasal Verbs

plough something in/back

1Plough grass or other material into the soil to enrich it.
clover was grown to plough in as green manure
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the work is done, the mulch can be plowed in and grass can be planted.
- In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground!
- A worrying factor will be the availability of straw this autumn as balers cannot get on to land and farmers may be forced to chop and plough it back.
- Many cereal growers instead of baling straw chopped it up and ploughed it in as prices were poor.
1. 1.1Invest money in a business or reinvest profits in the enterprise producing them.
  savings made through greater efficiency will be ploughed back into the service
  Example sentencesExamples
  She has been using a sports psychologist and almost all her prize money has been ploughed back into helping her career.
  Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions.
  If we fail to raise enough and they can't find a suitable private finance partner, no doubt we'll lose that money too and it will be ploughed in to pay for someone else's hospital.
  In Yellowstone, we turned a large number of campground operations over to a concessionaire and plowed the income back into campground facilities.
  Market revenues are ploughed back into the market-strong areas or used to augment the corporate side of university operations.
  Under Home Office rules police could only plough back fines into road safety improvements if offenders were caught on cameras.
  Both were working and ploughing their earnings back into the home and into comforts for their only child.
  Should the cut materialize, he said, he would plough the savings back into his company to buy new equipment and hire 30 additional employees.
  Of course, a proportion of those savings were ploughed back into the sport through the Dive Aid Foundation.
  Monetary prizes have been ploughed back into the schools and their projects.
  Synonyms
  invest in, put money into, sink money into, lay out money on

plough something under

Bury something in the soil by ploughing.

Derivatives

ploughable

adjective

Inspite of Shamu's repeated reminders that the land is not ploughable due to heavy rocks, she persists.
Example sentencesExamples
- The ground had become so thoroughly dry and hard that it would require a good long soaking rain to make it anything like ploughable.

plougher

noun ˈplaʊə

In recent times Laois ploughers have made a name for themselves not just locally but also on the national scene.
Example sentencesExamples
- The exhibit also contained an early model for this print, a charcoal drawing entitled ‘Pulling the Plough,’ in which an ominous ‘master’ figure pushes down on the plower's neck.
- Experts say they're largely poorly run, barely capable of providing food at subsistence level for just the new plowers of the soil.
- Mr. Carnegie, the City's supervisor of winter control in the area where Mr. Winter fell, acknowledged that the City plowers and sanders do not inspect the sidewalk and pay attention to the build up of debris.

Origin

Late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th century; earlier (16th–17th cents) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow.

The spelling plough did not become common until the 18th century. Before that only the noun was normally spelled this way, and the verb was plow, which is still the US spelling for both noun and verb. A staple of the pub lunchtime menu is the ploughman's lunch, a cold meal consisting of bread and cheese usually served with pickle and salad. This is not the traditional rural snack it might seem. The first recorded use of the term can be traced back only to 1960, though two years before that the same kind of thing was being given a similar name in The Times: ‘In a certain inn today you have only to say, “Ploughboy's Lunch, please,” and for a shilling there is bread and cheese and pickled onions to go with your pint’. And over a century earlier we find this curious pre-echo: ‘The surprised poet swung forth to join them, with an extemporized sandwich, that looked like a ploughman's luncheon, in his hand’ (John Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1837).

Definition of plow in US English:

plow

(British plough)

nounplouplaʊ

1A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a tractor or by animals and used for cutting furrows in the soil and turning it over, especially to prepare for the planting of seeds.
Example sentencesExamples
- But like those in the first, they sow this new seed in traditional furrows and with traditional plows.
- Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts.
- If he made a plow blade just a little bit off, the farmer who bought it would not be able to till his fields properly.
- The removal of the age-old plough from farming could lead to a major drop in pollution in rivers and lakes, according to environmentalists.
- This soil management practice reduces the need for excessive use of ploughs, discs and harrows.
- Ben uses a horse and a two-handled, V-shaped, walk-behind plow for turning the soil.
- In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master.
- If you turn your heavy soil with a plow in fall or early spring, your tiller will be much more effective.
- In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing.
- Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough.
- Motors and lifting straps can fail because crewmembers attempt to lift the plow while the blades are full of dirt and debris.
- One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
- Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations.
- Traditional agricultural implements, such as the foot plow, are still widely used.
- Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district.
- The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mould board.
- As a result, small farmers can no longer obtain the plows, seed-drills, fertilizer, or high-quality seed they used to receive on credit.
- You can improve soil quality and aggregate stability by adding amendments like manure, but if you follow with a plow, you may do more harm than good.
- We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines.
- The last step is to attach the plow blade to the front tire forks.
1. 1.1North American A snowplow.
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’.
  The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next.
  Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night.
  A Bradford Council highways spokesman said the snowploughs would be able to drive over the Burley Woodhead speed bumps, but would have to raise their plough blade to get over the humps.
2A yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor.
positions like plow and headstand can strain the neck
Example sentencesExamples
- Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough.
- The plow pose reduces backache and can help you get to sleep.
- Before incorporating the practice of Halasana one should master Poorwa Halasana (the Preliminary plough pose) under guidance.
- When these people bent their legs back over their heads in the plough pose, there was a greater risk of injury.
- In the plough, your body is bent forward; this stretches your entire spine, particularily your cervical vertebrae and shoulders.

verbplouplaʊ

[with object]

1Turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plow, especially before sowing.
Uncle Vic plowed his garden
Example sentencesExamples
- To carry out the order, the policemen took a tractor and ploughed up the field.
- I plan to symbolically plough a field in each country in order to meet other farmers and learn new ways of working the land.
- The authority is concerned that land is being ploughed in order to prevent access to ramblers who will soon be granted far greater freedoms under coming legislation.
- Hooper led his men over plowed fields in search of a place to cross the creek.
- With the first of the summer rains expected at any time now and hence the need to plough the fields in preparation for sowing, the people do not have any seeds to plant.
- Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one.
- Generally, surface compaction only affects one crop year if the field is plowed before the next crop.
- With each spell of rain, farmers plough the fields to prevent weeds from growing.
- This meant they could raise animals to eat them or to use them for their milk and their hides, and to plow the land to grow crops.
- He remembers that, as a child, while his father plowed a field in an annual ceremony, he was left in the shade of a rose apple tree.
- I was an experienced farmer, able to plow the land, plant, fertilize, weed and cut the sugar cane.
- Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows.
- Twenty ferries are slowly being replaced by bridges to connect orderly rural villages where man and buffalo still struggle to plow tiny paddy fields.
- Giving Ching some seeds from the south, Wang Lung tells him that he will help plow Ching's land with the newly bought ox.
- If he decides to plough an area that has not been treated in the past ten years, he must consult with Duchas.
- The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife!
- Another major emitter of pollution is farming, which releases carbon dioxide when the earth is ploughed and during other activities.
- It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me.
- The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter.
- The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus.
Synonyms
cultivate, till, work, furrow, harrow, ridge, break up, turn up
1. 1.1 Cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plow.
  icebergs have plowed furrows on the seabed
  Example sentencesExamples
  York's medieval farmers who used to plough a furrow here would still recognise it.
  I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat.
  Within the vast enclosure of the Altar to the God of Agriculture, the Emperor ploughed the first annual furrow to bless the earth and preserve its fertility.
  Makes it a bit hard to plough a straight line when you can't see anything.
  ‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed.
  A rogue wind ploughs furrows across the Sound of Mull.
  His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth.
  He still ploughs with the same enthusiasm of the man who ploughed that first furrow over a half a century ago.
  A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly.
  John struggled to lift his head as his back plowed a furrow across Kathy's lawn.
  The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust.
  Soccer balls kicked so hard they plow a furrow in the turf are much more original than whatever new weapon or explosion Hollywood is sending out for mass market consumption.
  My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow.
  Synonyms
  plough, drive, bulldoze, cut, carve, make
2. 1.2 (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water)
  cruise liners plow the long-sailed routes
  Example sentencesExamples
  The boat herself will tell you how to use the wind and how to plough the waters!
  The ship plowed the water, its broad sail bellying before the breeze, the crew enjoying their vacation from the oars.
  Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies.
  He watched the liner ploughing the foam.
  While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy.
  Water taxis and tour boats plow the Riverwalk loop.
  He pictured himself on the rolling deck with the wind and the rain in his face and the ship rising to the waves as she ploughed her way westward towards the shores of the USA.
2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner.
the car plowed into the side of a van
Example sentencesExamples
- A 1.5 metre long slab of the brick wall was dislodged after the truck ploughed front-first into the door.
- A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital.
- A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
- Then, last Wednesday, A Mercedes-Benz station wagon plowed nearly full speed into the back of our car while it was stopped at a traffic light.
- A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway.
- The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003.
- On a cold winter night, a mother driving with her children loses control of her car, plows off the road and crunches into a rock.
- The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
- A car had plowed into one cyclist, and when the cyclist fell he caused a group of cyclists to fall, too.
- All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall.
- However, while trying to improve his position, Chevrolet driver Alain Menu hit him on the second lap, causing Jaeger to run out of road and plough through the gravel.
- As I was crossing Main, a car nearly plowed into me.
- A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing.
- Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles.
- A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus.
- She died in hospital from the injuries she suffered when three vehicles ploughed into the car on a busy dual carriageway near Malton.
- As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin.
- Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000.
- A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand.
- Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding.
Synonyms
career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run, careen
crash into, smash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack against, crack into
1. 2.1 Advance or progress laboriously or forcibly.
  they plowed their way through deep snow
  the students are plowing through a set of grammar exercises
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit.
  However, nothing could have prepared them for the additional problems caused by heavy traffic as it ploughed through the deep water.
  I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it.
  But even then, Newport would win the line-out and plough down field.
  My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades.
  So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1.
  But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords.
  He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth.
  Relief only came - too late for some - on Friday afternoon when a convoy of trucks carrying food and water supplies ploughed through the flood waters.
  We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here.
  The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway.
  I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’
  Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom.
  The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps.
  ‘It's easy in Ireland to stay off the radar and just plough away, doing what you do’, he said.
  As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this.
  As the hurricane plowed across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico last week, it exploded into the third-most powerful hurricane on record for the Atlantic Basin.
  Three or four times he cruised low over the sea to give me a glimpse of the whales as they ploughed through the water on their way to give birth in the Mozambique Channel.
  In he jumped, goggles on, and then proceeded to plough through the water doing a very bad and splashy front crawl.
  Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell.
  Synonyms
  trudge, plod, toil, clump, push one's way, wade, flounder, press, move laboriously
  persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
2. 2.2plow on Continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop.
  he plowed on, trying to outline his plans
  Example sentencesExamples
  So, I put my fears down to beginners' nerves and ploughed on.
  He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event.
  However, despite having seen this scenario on so many occasions, councils continue to plough on with these futile policies, convincing themselves that ‘this time will be different’.
  For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on.
  I had to hug the microphone to my chest to stop it shaking in my hands and plowed on with sending up the outgoing president and all those associated with the conference.
  I think I'll plow on with it tonight and produce a finished version, then I can refine a version tomorrow.
  ‘Don't worry about that’ said Daniella, and ploughed on with the next question.
  Runners in the half marathon in March ploughed on through tough weather conditions and continuous rain to get round the 12-mile course.
  She took a breath and plowed on, despite her mind's pleas to stop talking.
  This came as such a shock because in public life one just ploughs on day after day, week after week, month after month and the years roll on.
  If circumstances change they just find a new rationale and plow on.
  Despite recent closures of his restaurants, his culinary mission ploughs on.
  The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post.
  He will plough on with the inevitable consequence of more and more soldiers dead.
  Undeterred he ploughs on, and all are soon engaged in jolly banter.
  But she ploughed on and landed a job doing interviews at this year's T in the Park, where she met fellow Scottish music television presenter Edith Bowman.
  He just puts one foot in front of another and ploughs on regardless.
  But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next.
  So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels.
  So I'm going to do what I always do and just plow on through and fix things as I see they need fixing.
  Synonyms
  persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
  persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer
3North American Clear snow from (a road) using a snowplow.
the roads weren't yet plowed
Example sentencesExamples
- One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles.
- As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites.
- Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled.
- I'm quite snowed in, because the street is not plowed, so it's a good day to plow through those exams.
- It was a snowy evening in Cleveland and the roads were covered and had not yet been plowed.
- The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed.
- The concern seemed to be limited to knowing where his home was and whether the road he was on would be plowed in the winter so that there would not be downtime for the rig.
- It would probably take them a week to be able to shovel out a snowplow so it can plow the main roads, never mind the secondary streets.
- We'd be happy to distribute maps, publish guidebooks, plow roads, and build trailheads.
- If Anderson had not allowed visitors to tour the park on snowmobiles, political pressures would most likely have forced him to plow the roads.
- Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring.
- This can hold the frost in the road until the cold temperatures return and the road can again be plowed.
- As the storm ended, Turner thought no day skiers would venture out, but as soon as Giuliani plowed the road, a line of waiting cars followed him back to the lodge.
- Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea.
- Of course the road hadn't been plowed yet, so as I approached it I picked up speed, hoping momentum and all-wheel drive would suffice.
- The government's next responsibility is to plow streets so I can get out of my driveway and emergency personnel can use the streets.
- The road is plowed all winter so one can park a vehicle within 20 meters of the climbs.
- In fact, we'd already been trapped once that winter and had had to hire a neighbor to plow the driveway.
- Mind you, not every city in the country spends a bundle on a fancy main square downtown at the cost of plowed streets in the winter.
- The roads had been plowed, so they would be traveling alongside the roads across the banked snow, and some of the still untouched snow.
4British dated, informal Fail (an examination).
Example sentencesExamples
- Not many people plough Greats at 21 and become a professor of Latin at 33.

Phrases

plow a lonely (or one's own) furrow

Follow a course of action in which one is isolated or in which one can act independently.
Example sentencesExamples
- They're so divorced from any other music right now, plowing their own furrow, yet still intimately connected to the fabric of contemporary culture.
- McMurdo shrugs happily and says she prefers to plough her own furrow unhindered by media hype.
- They are surrounded by some of the smartest, most cutting edge restaurants in town but, as Mills puts it, ‘Food-wise we plough our own furrow’.
- Elected to the Dáil in 1981, he has won the respect of many, at times ploughing a lonely furrow as an unabashed socialist and campaigner on international issues.
- Many collectors are fiercely independent and plough their own furrow.
- I think the experience of the last few years really has been that we do better when we plough our own furrow as a party.
- Willoughby's determination to plow his own furrow gave every appearance of being a separate and discordant maneuver by radical back-bench peers.
- Since then Alison has been in and out of the public spotlight, but has always ploughed her own furrow through the music wilderness.
- A latecomer to rugby, he has always ploughed his own furrow.
- For far too long McGrath has ploughed a lonely furrow, been the shining light for Waterford without the adequate support but not this year.

put (or set) one's hand to the plow

Embark on a task.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no room for nostalgia, no looking back once we have put our hand to the plough.
- The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men.
Synonyms
make a start, begin, make a beginning, take the first step, lay the first stone, make the first move, get going, go ahead, set things moving, take something forward, buckle down, buckle to, turn to, put one's shoulder to the wheel, put one's hand to the plough, get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling

Phrasal Verbs

plow something in/back

1Plow grass or other material into the soil to enrich it.
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground!
- A worrying factor will be the availability of straw this autumn as balers cannot get on to land and farmers may be forced to chop and plough it back.
- Many cereal growers instead of baling straw chopped it up and ploughed it in as prices were poor.
- Once the work is done, the mulch can be plowed in and grass can be planted.
1. 1.1Invest money in a business or reinvest profits in the enterprise producing them.
  savings made through greater efficiency will be plowed back into the service
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of course, a proportion of those savings were ploughed back into the sport through the Dive Aid Foundation.
  Market revenues are ploughed back into the market-strong areas or used to augment the corporate side of university operations.
  Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions.
  She has been using a sports psychologist and almost all her prize money has been ploughed back into helping her career.
  If we fail to raise enough and they can't find a suitable private finance partner, no doubt we'll lose that money too and it will be ploughed in to pay for someone else's hospital.
  Monetary prizes have been ploughed back into the schools and their projects.
  Under Home Office rules police could only plough back fines into road safety improvements if offenders were caught on cameras.
  Should the cut materialize, he said, he would plough the savings back into his company to buy new equipment and hire 30 additional employees.
  Both were working and ploughing their earnings back into the home and into comforts for their only child.
  In Yellowstone, we turned a large number of campground operations over to a concessionaire and plowed the income back into campground facilities.
  Synonyms
  invest in, put money into, sink money into, lay out money on

plow under

Bury in the soil by plowing.
Example sentencesExamples
- And, of course, by not plowing under the crop residue, the farmers save on costs of labor, fuel, tractors, and other equipment.
- If they guess wrong, an entire crop could left in the field to be plowed under.
- Instead of being cut and sold, the cover crops are plowed under to nourish the soil.
- Straw can be plowed under, but that costs about $8 to $10 an acre.
- All perennial weeds need to be plowed under completely when the field is prepared.

plow up

1Till (soil) completely or thoroughly.
Example sentencesExamples
- When we plow up more land than can be farmed, grade and disrupt natural landscapes, we provide fertile ground for non-native tumbleweeds and exotic invasive plants.
- Papa would borrow a tiller from a friend and plow up the patch making room for two rows of twelve plants each.
- He sees his father plow up the prairie, watches his parents' dreams of agricultural riches pulverized along with the dirt.
1. 1.1Uncover by plowing.

Origin

Late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th century; earlier (16th–17th centuries) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow.

单词	plough
释义	Definition of plough in English: plough (US plow) noun plaʊplaʊ 1A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn over soil to turn it over and cut furrows in preparation for the planting of seeds. Example sentencesExamples In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master. You can improve soil quality and aggregate stability by adding amendments like manure, but if you follow with a plow, you may do more harm than good. The last step is to attach the plow blade to the front tire forks. Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations. Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district. Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts. The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mould board. Motors and lifting straps can fail because crewmembers attempt to lift the plow while the blades are full of dirt and debris. But like those in the first, they sow this new seed in traditional furrows and with traditional plows. Ben uses a horse and a two-handled, V-shaped, walk-behind plow for turning the soil. If he made a plow blade just a little bit off, the farmer who bought it would not be able to till his fields properly. If you turn your heavy soil with a plow in fall or early spring, your tiller will be much more effective. The removal of the age-old plough from farming could lead to a major drop in pollution in rivers and lakes, according to environmentalists. We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines. As a result, small farmers can no longer obtain the plows, seed-drills, fertilizer, or high-quality seed they used to receive on credit. Traditional agricultural implements, such as the foot plow, are still widely used. Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough. In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing. One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used. This soil management practice reduces the need for excessive use of ploughs, discs and harrows. 1.1mass noun Land that has been ploughed. she saw a brown strip of plough Example sentencesExamples There were scattered houses and tree-lined roadways, then open plough, then clumps of trees. 1.2North American A snowplough. Example sentencesExamples Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night. A Bradford Council highways spokesman said the snowploughs would be able to drive over the Burley Woodhead speed bumps, but would have to raise their plough blade to get over the humps. The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next. There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’. 2British A prominent formation of seven stars in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), containing the Pointers that indicate the direction to the Pole Star. Also called "the Big Dipper", Charles's Wain 3A yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor. poses such as the plough promote circulation and the drainage of blood from the legs Example sentencesExamples Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough. When these people bent their legs back over their heads in the plough pose, there was a greater risk of injury. Before incorporating the practice of Halasana one should master Poorwa Halasana (the Preliminary plough pose) under guidance. In the plough, your body is bent forward; this stretches your entire spine, particularily your cervical vertebrae and shoulders. The plow pose reduces backache and can help you get to sleep. verb plaʊplaʊ [with object] 1Turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plough, especially before sowing. the fields had all been ploughed up Example sentencesExamples The authority is concerned that land is being ploughed in order to prevent access to ramblers who will soon be granted far greater freedoms under coming legislation. The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter. Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one. The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife! It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me. I was an experienced farmer, able to plow the land, plant, fertilize, weed and cut the sugar cane. With the first of the summer rains expected at any time now and hence the need to plough the fields in preparation for sowing, the people do not have any seeds to plant. This meant they could raise animals to eat them or to use them for their milk and their hides, and to plow the land to grow crops. The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus. With each spell of rain, farmers plough the fields to prevent weeds from growing. Twenty ferries are slowly being replaced by bridges to connect orderly rural villages where man and buffalo still struggle to plow tiny paddy fields. If he decides to plough an area that has not been treated in the past ten years, he must consult with Duchas. He remembers that, as a child, while his father plowed a field in an annual ceremony, he was left in the shade of a rose apple tree. Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows. I plan to symbolically plough a field in each country in order to meet other farmers and learn new ways of working the land. Giving Ching some seeds from the south, Wang Lung tells him that he will help plow Ching's land with the newly bought ox. Hooper led his men over plowed fields in search of a place to cross the creek. To carry out the order, the policemen took a tractor and ploughed up the field. Another major emitter of pollution is farming, which releases carbon dioxide when the earth is ploughed and during other activities. Generally, surface compaction only affects one crop year if the field is plowed before the next crop. Synonyms cultivate, till, work, furrow, harrow, ridge, break up, turn up 1.1 Cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plough. icebergs have ploughed furrows on the seabed Example sentencesExamples Soccer balls kicked so hard they plow a furrow in the turf are much more original than whatever new weapon or explosion Hollywood is sending out for mass market consumption. A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly. The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust. Within the vast enclosure of the Altar to the God of Agriculture, the Emperor ploughed the first annual furrow to bless the earth and preserve its fertility. John struggled to lift his head as his back plowed a furrow across Kathy's lawn. His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth. I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat. ‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed. My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow. York's medieval farmers who used to plough a furrow here would still recognise it. Makes it a bit hard to plough a straight line when you can't see anything. He still ploughs with the same enthusiasm of the man who ploughed that first furrow over a half a century ago. A rogue wind ploughs furrows across the Sound of Mull. Synonyms drive, bulldoze, cut, carve, make 1.2 (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water) cruise liners plough the long-sailed routes Example sentencesExamples While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy. The ship plowed the water, its broad sail bellying before the breeze, the crew enjoying their vacation from the oars. He watched the liner ploughing the foam. Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies. The boat herself will tell you how to use the wind and how to plough the waters! He pictured himself on the rolling deck with the wind and the rain in his face and the ship rising to the waves as she ploughed her way westward towards the shores of the USA. Water taxis and tour boats plow the Riverwalk loop. 1.3plough something up Unearth something while using a plough. some day someone will plough up the bomb and lose a leg Example sentencesExamples ‘There are ferns on every farm and farmers are ploughing them up every day,’ he declared. Even today, farmers in Belgium and Northern France plough up an annual ‘iron harvest’ of unexploded shells from World War I, and occasional deaths do result. 2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner. the car ploughed into the side of a van Example sentencesExamples All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall. A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital. A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand. A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway. As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin. The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003. A car had plowed into one cyclist, and when the cyclist fell he caused a group of cyclists to fall, too. A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge. However, while trying to improve his position, Chevrolet driver Alain Menu hit him on the second lap, causing Jaeger to run out of road and plough through the gravel. Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles. She died in hospital from the injuries she suffered when three vehicles ploughed into the car on a busy dual carriageway near Malton. As I was crossing Main, a car nearly plowed into me. Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding. Then, last Wednesday, A Mercedes-Benz station wagon plowed nearly full speed into the back of our car while it was stopped at a traffic light. Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000. The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water. A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing. A 1.5 metre long slab of the brick wall was dislodged after the truck ploughed front-first into the door. A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus. On a cold winter night, a mother driving with her children loses control of her car, plows off the road and crunches into a rock. Synonyms career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run, careen North American informal barrel crash into, smash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack into/against dash against North American impact 2.1 Advance or progress laboriously or forcibly. they ploughed their way through deep snow the students are ploughing through a set of grammar exercises Example sentencesExamples Three or four times he cruised low over the sea to give me a glimpse of the whales as they ploughed through the water on their way to give birth in the Mozambique Channel. As the hurricane plowed across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico last week, it exploded into the third-most powerful hurricane on record for the Atlantic Basin. As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this. He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth. But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords. We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here. In he jumped, goggles on, and then proceeded to plough through the water doing a very bad and splashy front crawl. Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom. Relief only came - too late for some - on Friday afternoon when a convoy of trucks carrying food and water supplies ploughed through the flood waters. Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell. ‘It's easy in Ireland to stay off the radar and just plough away, doing what you do’, he said. I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’ But even then, Newport would win the line-out and plough down field. My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades. The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps. I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it. So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1. The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway. Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit. However, nothing could have prepared them for the additional problems caused by heavy traffic as it ploughed through the deep water. Synonyms trudge, plod, toil, clump, push one's way, wade, flounder, press, move laboriously informal slog British informal trog persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, see/follow something through, show determination, press on/ahead, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer be tenacious, be pertinacious, insist, be patient, be diligent, stand one's ground, stand fast/firm, hold on, hold out, go the distance, stay the course, grind away, struggle on, hammer away, stop at nothing, leave no stone unturned informal plug away, peg away, stick at it, soldier on, hang on, stick to one's guns, stick it out, hang in there, bash on 2.2plough on Continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop. he ploughed on, trying to outline his plans Example sentencesExamples He will plough on with the inevitable consequence of more and more soldiers dead. The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post. But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next. So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels. Runners in the half marathon in March ploughed on through tough weather conditions and continuous rain to get round the 12-mile course. Undeterred he ploughs on, and all are soon engaged in jolly banter. ‘Don't worry about that’ said Daniella, and ploughed on with the next question. If circumstances change they just find a new rationale and plow on. So, I put my fears down to beginners' nerves and ploughed on. This came as such a shock because in public life one just ploughs on day after day, week after week, month after month and the years roll on. For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on. He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event. Despite recent closures of his restaurants, his culinary mission ploughs on. So I'm going to do what I always do and just plow on through and fix things as I see they need fixing. He just puts one foot in front of another and ploughs on regardless. However, despite having seen this scenario on so many occasions, councils continue to plough on with these futile policies, convincing themselves that ‘this time will be different’. But she ploughed on and landed a job doing interviews at this year's T in the Park, where she met fellow Scottish music television presenter Edith Bowman. I had to hug the microphone to my chest to stop it shaking in my hands and plowed on with sending up the outgoing president and all those associated with the conference. She took a breath and plowed on, despite her mind's pleas to stop talking. I think I'll plow on with it tonight and produce a finished version, then I can refine a version tomorrow. Synonyms persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer 3North American Clear snow from (a road) using a snowplough. he could use the car only in summer because the roads weren't ploughed in winter Example sentencesExamples The road is plowed all winter so one can park a vehicle within 20 meters of the climbs. I'm quite snowed in, because the street is not plowed, so it's a good day to plow through those exams. It would probably take them a week to be able to shovel out a snowplow so it can plow the main roads, never mind the secondary streets. The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed. Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring. It was a snowy evening in Cleveland and the roads were covered and had not yet been plowed. Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled. The concern seemed to be limited to knowing where his home was and whether the road he was on would be plowed in the winter so that there would not be downtime for the rig. As the storm ended, Turner thought no day skiers would venture out, but as soon as Giuliani plowed the road, a line of waiting cars followed him back to the lodge. The roads had been plowed, so they would be traveling alongside the roads across the banked snow, and some of the still untouched snow. One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles. We'd be happy to distribute maps, publish guidebooks, plow roads, and build trailheads. In fact, we'd already been trapped once that winter and had had to hire a neighbor to plow the driveway. Of course the road hadn't been plowed yet, so as I approached it I picked up speed, hoping momentum and all-wheel drive would suffice. If Anderson had not allowed visitors to tour the park on snowmobiles, political pressures would most likely have forced him to plow the roads. As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites. The government's next responsibility is to plow streets so I can get out of my driveway and emergency personnel can use the streets. Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea. This can hold the frost in the road until the cold temperatures return and the road can again be plowed. Mind you, not every city in the country spends a bundle on a fancy main square downtown at the cost of plowed streets in the winter. 4British dated, informal Fail (an examination) not many people plough Greats and become a professor of Latin Example sentencesExamples Not many people plough Greats at 21 and become a professor of Latin at 33. Phrases plough a lonely (or one's own) furrow Follow a course of action in which one is isolated or in which one can act independently. it is more sensible for the college as a whole to act than for individual departments to plough a lonely furrow Example sentencesExamples Many collectors are fiercely independent and plough their own furrow. Willoughby's determination to plow his own furrow gave every appearance of being a separate and discordant maneuver by radical back-bench peers. They are surrounded by some of the smartest, most cutting edge restaurants in town but, as Mills puts it, ‘Food-wise we plough our own furrow’. I think the experience of the last few years really has been that we do better when we plough our own furrow as a party. For far too long McGrath has ploughed a lonely furrow, been the shining light for Waterford without the adequate support but not this year. Elected to the Dáil in 1981, he has won the respect of many, at times ploughing a lonely furrow as an unabashed socialist and campaigner on international issues. They're so divorced from any other music right now, plowing their own furrow, yet still intimately connected to the fabric of contemporary culture. McMurdo shrugs happily and says she prefers to plough her own furrow unhindered by media hype. Since then Alison has been in and out of the public spotlight, but has always ploughed her own furrow through the music wilderness. A latecomer to rugby, he has always ploughed his own furrow. put (or set) one's hand to the plough Embark on a task. she needed a rest, but she had set her hand to the plough Example sentencesExamples There is no room for nostalgia, no looking back once we have put our hand to the plough. The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men. Synonyms make a start, begin, make a beginning, take the first step, lay the first stone, make the first move, get going, go ahead, set things moving, take something forward, buckle down, buckle to, turn to, put one's shoulder to the wheel, put one's hand to the plough, get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling Phrasal Verbs plough something in/back 1Plough grass or other material into the soil to enrich it. clover was grown to plough in as green manure Example sentencesExamples Once the work is done, the mulch can be plowed in and grass can be planted. In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground! A worrying factor will be the availability of straw this autumn as balers cannot get on to land and farmers may be forced to chop and plough it back. Many cereal growers instead of baling straw chopped it up and ploughed it in as prices were poor. 1.1Invest money in a business or reinvest profits in the enterprise producing them. savings made through greater efficiency will be ploughed back into the service Example sentencesExamples She has been using a sports psychologist and almost all her prize money has been ploughed back into helping her career. Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions. If we fail to raise enough and they can't find a suitable private finance partner, no doubt we'll lose that money too and it will be ploughed in to pay for someone else's hospital. In Yellowstone, we turned a large number of campground operations over to a concessionaire and plowed the income back into campground facilities. Market revenues are ploughed back into the market-strong areas or used to augment the corporate side of university operations. Under Home Office rules police could only plough back fines into road safety improvements if offenders were caught on cameras. Both were working and ploughing their earnings back into the home and into comforts for their only child. Should the cut materialize, he said, he would plough the savings back into his company to buy new equipment and hire 30 additional employees. Of course, a proportion of those savings were ploughed back into the sport through the Dive Aid Foundation. Monetary prizes have been ploughed back into the schools and their projects. Synonyms invest in, put money into, sink money into, lay out money on plough something under Bury something in the soil by ploughing. Derivatives ploughable adjective Inspite of Shamu's repeated reminders that the land is not ploughable due to heavy rocks, she persists. Example sentencesExamples The ground had become so thoroughly dry and hard that it would require a good long soaking rain to make it anything like ploughable. plougher noun ˈplaʊə In recent times Laois ploughers have made a name for themselves not just locally but also on the national scene. Example sentencesExamples The exhibit also contained an early model for this print, a charcoal drawing entitled ‘Pulling the Plough,’ in which an ominous ‘master’ figure pushes down on the plower's neck. Experts say they're largely poorly run, barely capable of providing food at subsistence level for just the new plowers of the soil. Mr. Carnegie, the City's supervisor of winter control in the area where Mr. Winter fell, acknowledged that the City plowers and sanders do not inspect the sidewalk and pay attention to the build up of debris. Origin Late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th century; earlier (16th–17th cents) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow. The spelling plough did not become common until the 18th century. Before that only the noun was normally spelled this way, and the verb was plow, which is still the US spelling for both noun and verb. A staple of the pub lunchtime menu is the ploughman's lunch, a cold meal consisting of bread and cheese usually served with pickle and salad. This is not the traditional rural snack it might seem. The first recorded use of the term can be traced back only to 1960, though two years before that the same kind of thing was being given a similar name in The Times: ‘In a certain inn today you have only to say, “Ploughboy's Lunch, please,” and for a shilling there is bread and cheese and pickled onions to go with your pint’. And over a century earlier we find this curious pre-echo: ‘The surprised poet swung forth to join them, with an extemporized sandwich, that looked like a ploughman's luncheon, in his hand’ (John Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1837). noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of plow in US English: plow (British plough) nounplouplaʊ 1A large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a tractor or by animals and used for cutting furrows in the soil and turning it over, especially to prepare for the planting of seeds. Example sentencesExamples But like those in the first, they sow this new seed in traditional furrows and with traditional plows. Cotton seed should not be planted behind the plough, as is the case when planting maize or groundnuts. If he made a plow blade just a little bit off, the farmer who bought it would not be able to till his fields properly. The removal of the age-old plough from farming could lead to a major drop in pollution in rivers and lakes, according to environmentalists. This soil management practice reduces the need for excessive use of ploughs, discs and harrows. Ben uses a horse and a two-handled, V-shaped, walk-behind plow for turning the soil. In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master. If you turn your heavy soil with a plow in fall or early spring, your tiller will be much more effective. In September, men prepare the fields with plows pulled by oxen while women do the sowing. Each day I must yoke the oxen and fasten the ploughshare to the plough. Motors and lifting straps can fail because crewmembers attempt to lift the plow while the blades are full of dirt and debris. One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used. Well, it's off to the equipment shop to rebuild the plow for our fall plowing operations. Traditional agricultural implements, such as the foot plow, are still widely used. Bill began in business with six horses and a plough doing contract ploughing around the district. The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mould board. As a result, small farmers can no longer obtain the plows, seed-drills, fertilizer, or high-quality seed they used to receive on credit. You can improve soil quality and aggregate stability by adding amendments like manure, but if you follow with a plow, you may do more harm than good. We could spend a lot of time talking about precision adjustments for plows, tillage implements, grain drills, and combines. The last step is to attach the plow blade to the front tire forks. 1.1North American A snowplow. Example sentencesExamples There were a few cars, a plough clearing the parking areas and a sign reading ‘look around you and you can see all sorts of wild plants and animals’. The plows move in a ‘conga line’, one tossing snow to the next. Thankfully, she'd parked in his wide driveway so no one would have to worry about a plow sideswiping her car during the night. A Bradford Council highways spokesman said the snowploughs would be able to drive over the Burley Woodhead speed bumps, but would have to raise their plough blade to get over the humps. 2A yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor. positions like plow and headstand can strain the neck Example sentencesExamples Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough. The plow pose reduces backache and can help you get to sleep. Before incorporating the practice of Halasana one should master Poorwa Halasana (the Preliminary plough pose) under guidance. When these people bent their legs back over their heads in the plough pose, there was a greater risk of injury. In the plough, your body is bent forward; this stretches your entire spine, particularily your cervical vertebrae and shoulders. verbplouplaʊ [with object] 1Turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plow, especially before sowing. Uncle Vic plowed his garden Example sentencesExamples To carry out the order, the policemen took a tractor and ploughed up the field. I plan to symbolically plough a field in each country in order to meet other farmers and learn new ways of working the land. The authority is concerned that land is being ploughed in order to prevent access to ramblers who will soon be granted far greater freedoms under coming legislation. Hooper led his men over plowed fields in search of a place to cross the creek. With the first of the summer rains expected at any time now and hence the need to plough the fields in preparation for sowing, the people do not have any seeds to plant. Approximately twice as much land could be ploughed with two ploughteams in a day as with one. Generally, surface compaction only affects one crop year if the field is plowed before the next crop. With each spell of rain, farmers plough the fields to prevent weeds from growing. This meant they could raise animals to eat them or to use them for their milk and their hides, and to plow the land to grow crops. He remembers that, as a child, while his father plowed a field in an annual ceremony, he was left in the shade of a rose apple tree. I was an experienced farmer, able to plow the land, plant, fertilize, weed and cut the sugar cane. Most farmers still ploughed the land in the English manner with deep and complete turned furrows. Twenty ferries are slowly being replaced by bridges to connect orderly rural villages where man and buffalo still struggle to plow tiny paddy fields. Giving Ching some seeds from the south, Wang Lung tells him that he will help plow Ching's land with the newly bought ox. If he decides to plough an area that has not been treated in the past ten years, he must consult with Duchas. The rest of my time was devoted to ploughing the sun-scorched earth, tanning buffalo hides, and fighting off grizzled-bears with my trusty bowie-knife! Another major emitter of pollution is farming, which releases carbon dioxide when the earth is ploughed and during other activities. It is difficult to plough the land and I have no older children and no uncle to help me. The volume of land that is being ploughed each year is getting greater, and the tree loss just that bit more, all conspiring to wash more soil into the river each winter. The first of these was uncovered by a farmer ploughing his fields in 1962, and most are dedicated to Dionysus. Synonyms cultivate, till, work, furrow, harrow, ridge, break up, turn up 1.1 Cut (a furrow or line) with or as if with a plow. icebergs have plowed furrows on the seabed Example sentencesExamples York's medieval farmers who used to plough a furrow here would still recognise it. I hope to see polar bears too, but witnessing the ocean solidified into blocks that creak and growl as the ship's ice-strengthened hull ploughs a furrow is enough of a treat. Within the vast enclosure of the Altar to the God of Agriculture, the Emperor ploughed the first annual furrow to bless the earth and preserve its fertility. Makes it a bit hard to plough a straight line when you can't see anything. ‘What shall we do? ‘the mice squealed in horror as they watched the herds plowing deep ruts in the road, destroying many homes as they passed. A rogue wind ploughs furrows across the Sound of Mull. His sword, made of ancient oak, sliced through the air, its tip ploughing a shallow groove in the earth. He still ploughs with the same enthusiasm of the man who ploughed that first furrow over a half a century ago. A yoke on oxen prevents them from moving away from each other so that they plough the furrow correctly. John struggled to lift his head as his back plowed a furrow across Kathy's lawn. The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust. Soccer balls kicked so hard they plow a furrow in the turf are much more original than whatever new weapon or explosion Hollywood is sending out for mass market consumption. My skis straighten, the bottom of the slope rushes at me, and I find myself in a heap, ploughing up a furrow of snow. Synonyms plough, drive, bulldoze, cut, carve, make 1.2 (of a ship or boat) travel through (an area of water) cruise liners plow the long-sailed routes Example sentencesExamples The boat herself will tell you how to use the wind and how to plough the waters! The ship plowed the water, its broad sail bellying before the breeze, the crew enjoying their vacation from the oars. Going back to her tiny quarters, she fell quickly asleep as the ship ploughed its way through the waters of the Atlantic under sullen skies. He watched the liner ploughing the foam. While the boat dug its way through the waves as if arduously ploughing them, I waited, dreamed, and hoped I'd be worthy. Water taxis and tour boats plow the Riverwalk loop. He pictured himself on the rolling deck with the wind and the rain in his face and the ship rising to the waves as she ploughed her way westward towards the shores of the USA. 2no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner. the car plowed into the side of a van Example sentencesExamples A 1.5 metre long slab of the brick wall was dislodged after the truck ploughed front-first into the door. A teenage driver who was critically injured when his car ploughed into railings outside a house has died in hospital. A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge. Then, last Wednesday, A Mercedes-Benz station wagon plowed nearly full speed into the back of our car while it was stopped at a traffic light. A family watching late-night television got the shock of their lives when a car ploughed into their hallway. The car in which Emma was travelling ploughed into a field between Otley and Harrogate in November 2003. On a cold winter night, a mother driving with her children loses control of her car, plows off the road and crunches into a rock. The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water. A car had plowed into one cyclist, and when the cyclist fell he caused a group of cyclists to fall, too. All the adults had died instantly when the cars they were travelling in ploughed into a wall. However, while trying to improve his position, Chevrolet driver Alain Menu hit him on the second lap, causing Jaeger to run out of road and plough through the gravel. As I was crossing Main, a car nearly plowed into me. A 15-year-old boy was killed in front of his father and brother when a speeding stolen car ploughed into him on a pedestrian crossing. Detectives are trying to piece together the mystery behind a series of incidents leading to a four-wheeled drive car ploughing across a field at Witham and into a stock of new vehicles. A bus driver was hailed a hero today for saving the lives of his passengers when a car ploughed head-on into his bus. She died in hospital from the injuries she suffered when three vehicles ploughed into the car on a busy dual carriageway near Malton. As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water, panicked screams fill the cabin. Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000. A young couple from Scotland died when their sightseeing aircraft ploughed into a mountainside in New Zealand. Last week a car ploughed into a lamp post leaving two men fighting for their lives, although it has not been suggested the car was speeding. Synonyms career, plunge, crash, smash, bulldoze, hurtle, cannon, lurch, drive, run, careen crash into, smash into, collide with, be in collision with, hit, strike, ram, smack into, slam into, bang into, meet head-on, run into, drive into, bump into, crack against, crack into 2.1 Advance or progress laboriously or forcibly. they plowed their way through deep snow the students are plowing through a set of grammar exercises Example sentencesExamples Tomaz continued, alone, plowing through waist-high snowdrifts, to the 26,504-foot summit. However, nothing could have prepared them for the additional problems caused by heavy traffic as it ploughed through the deep water. I'm still plowing through the Anita Blake books - I'm near the end of book five tonight, and I have every intention of finishing it. But even then, Newport would win the line-out and plough down field. My friend Earl and I spent this evening plowing through crates of old videotapes that I've had in storage for, in some cases, two decades. So here's my advice, if you don't feel like plowing through pages and pages of this novel: read the prologue and Chapter 1. But a web spider crawls the web for you, plowing through page after page, relentlessly extracting links, page titles, page sizes, and even keywords. He cursed again and plowed through the water, trying to gain extra momentum by throwing his arms back and forth. Relief only came - too late for some - on Friday afternoon when a convoy of trucks carrying food and water supplies ploughed through the flood waters. We're trying to get this recovery going by plowing through the paperwork requirements, as fast as possible, so that we can reduce the frustrations here. The column is a little hard to read since the Times website has inexplicably removed all the paragraph breaks, but it's worth plowing through anyway. I'm still plowing through the boxes of stuff, and came across a book I swiped from my parents' shelf: a ‘Red Primer for Children and Diplomats.’ Back when I was an editor at HBR, I spent a lot of time plowing through turgid academic papers trying to turn up nuggets of practical wisdom. The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps. ‘It's easy in Ireland to stay off the radar and just plough away, doing what you do’, he said. As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this. As the hurricane plowed across the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico last week, it exploded into the third-most powerful hurricane on record for the Atlantic Basin. Three or four times he cruised low over the sea to give me a glimpse of the whales as they ploughed through the water on their way to give birth in the Mozambique Channel. In he jumped, goggles on, and then proceeded to plough through the water doing a very bad and splashy front crawl. Yes, I had trouble plowing through the first season after the gang went to college but freshman year is supposed to be hell. Synonyms trudge, plod, toil, clump, push one's way, wade, flounder, press, move laboriously persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer 2.2plow on Continue steadily despite difficulties or warnings to stop. he plowed on, trying to outline his plans Example sentencesExamples So, I put my fears down to beginners' nerves and ploughed on. He has always thought it better to continue ploughing on in relative anonymity on the clay court circuit than to prepare for the world's only major grass court event. However, despite having seen this scenario on so many occasions, councils continue to plough on with these futile policies, convincing themselves that ‘this time will be different’. For years, people thought we were cranks, but we just kept ploughing on. I had to hug the microphone to my chest to stop it shaking in my hands and plowed on with sending up the outgoing president and all those associated with the conference. I think I'll plow on with it tonight and produce a finished version, then I can refine a version tomorrow. ‘Don't worry about that’ said Daniella, and ploughed on with the next question. Runners in the half marathon in March ploughed on through tough weather conditions and continuous rain to get round the 12-mile course. She took a breath and plowed on, despite her mind's pleas to stop talking. This came as such a shock because in public life one just ploughs on day after day, week after week, month after month and the years roll on. If circumstances change they just find a new rationale and plow on. Despite recent closures of his restaurants, his culinary mission ploughs on. The two made it to shelter and we ploughed on towards a border post. He will plough on with the inevitable consequence of more and more soldiers dead. Undeterred he ploughs on, and all are soon engaged in jolly banter. But she ploughed on and landed a job doing interviews at this year's T in the Park, where she met fellow Scottish music television presenter Edith Bowman. He just puts one foot in front of another and ploughs on regardless. But he had to wait for more than a decade before the next score, and even then he ploughed on enthusiastically until last month for the next. So we gave up and I ploughed on with the Mitford sisters biography - which is actually far less interesting than the fictionalised versions in Nancy Mitford's novels. So I'm going to do what I always do and just plow on through and fix things as I see they need fixing. Synonyms persevere, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, plough on, stay with something, not take no for an answer persevere, persist, continue, carry on, go on, keep at it, keep on, keep going, keep it up, not give up, be persistent, be determined, follow something through, see something through, show determination, press ahead, press on, plod on, stay with something, not take no for an answer 3North American Clear snow from (a road) using a snowplow. the roads weren't yet plowed Example sentencesExamples One hotly debated alternative proposes plowing the road from West Yellowstone to Old Faithful for mass-transit vehicles, and closing it to snowmobiles. As snow continued to fall in January and February, the battalion was kept busy plowing access roads to the sites. Still, when it snowed the road had to be plowed or it was impassable, and in the summer the dust whirled. I'm quite snowed in, because the street is not plowed, so it's a good day to plow through those exams. It was a snowy evening in Cleveland and the roads were covered and had not yet been plowed. The chief has so much impact - whether or not you get water, whether your mother's driveway is ploughed. The concern seemed to be limited to knowing where his home was and whether the road he was on would be plowed in the winter so that there would not be downtime for the rig. It would probably take them a week to be able to shovel out a snowplow so it can plow the main roads, never mind the secondary streets. We'd be happy to distribute maps, publish guidebooks, plow roads, and build trailheads. If Anderson had not allowed visitors to tour the park on snowmobiles, political pressures would most likely have forced him to plow the roads. Good thing the City finally decided to spend some damn money on plowing the roads, because there's gonna be a lot of tour buses coming through here before spring. This can hold the frost in the road until the cold temperatures return and the road can again be plowed. As the storm ended, Turner thought no day skiers would venture out, but as soon as Giuliani plowed the road, a line of waiting cars followed him back to the lodge. Over 30 km of roads are ploughed by the Swedish Road Administration to allow vehicles to move freely across the sea. Of course the road hadn't been plowed yet, so as I approached it I picked up speed, hoping momentum and all-wheel drive would suffice. The government's next responsibility is to plow streets so I can get out of my driveway and emergency personnel can use the streets. The road is plowed all winter so one can park a vehicle within 20 meters of the climbs. In fact, we'd already been trapped once that winter and had had to hire a neighbor to plow the driveway. Mind you, not every city in the country spends a bundle on a fancy main square downtown at the cost of plowed streets in the winter. The roads had been plowed, so they would be traveling alongside the roads across the banked snow, and some of the still untouched snow. 4British dated, informal Fail (an examination). Example sentencesExamples Not many people plough Greats at 21 and become a professor of Latin at 33. Phrases plow a lonely (or one's own) furrow Follow a course of action in which one is isolated or in which one can act independently. Example sentencesExamples They're so divorced from any other music right now, plowing their own furrow, yet still intimately connected to the fabric of contemporary culture. McMurdo shrugs happily and says she prefers to plough her own furrow unhindered by media hype. They are surrounded by some of the smartest, most cutting edge restaurants in town but, as Mills puts it, ‘Food-wise we plough our own furrow’. Elected to the Dáil in 1981, he has won the respect of many, at times ploughing a lonely furrow as an unabashed socialist and campaigner on international issues. Many collectors are fiercely independent and plough their own furrow. I think the experience of the last few years really has been that we do better when we plough our own furrow as a party. Willoughby's determination to plow his own furrow gave every appearance of being a separate and discordant maneuver by radical back-bench peers. Since then Alison has been in and out of the public spotlight, but has always ploughed her own furrow through the music wilderness. A latecomer to rugby, he has always ploughed his own furrow. For far too long McGrath has ploughed a lonely furrow, been the shining light for Waterford without the adequate support but not this year. put (or set) one's hand to the plow Embark on a task. Example sentencesExamples There is no room for nostalgia, no looking back once we have put our hand to the plough. The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men. Synonyms make a start, begin, make a beginning, take the first step, lay the first stone, make the first move, get going, go ahead, set things moving, take something forward, buckle down, buckle to, turn to, put one's shoulder to the wheel, put one's hand to the plough, get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, start the ball rolling Phrasal Verbs plow something in/back 1Plow grass or other material into the soil to enrich it. Example sentencesExamples In 1933 alone, $100 million was paid out to cotton farmers to plough their crop back into the ground! A worrying factor will be the availability of straw this autumn as balers cannot get on to land and farmers may be forced to chop and plough it back. Many cereal growers instead of baling straw chopped it up and ploughed it in as prices were poor. Once the work is done, the mulch can be plowed in and grass can be planted. 1.1Invest money in a business or reinvest profits in the enterprise producing them. savings made through greater efficiency will be plowed back into the service Example sentencesExamples Of course, a proportion of those savings were ploughed back into the sport through the Dive Aid Foundation. Market revenues are ploughed back into the market-strong areas or used to augment the corporate side of university operations. Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions. She has been using a sports psychologist and almost all her prize money has been ploughed back into helping her career. If we fail to raise enough and they can't find a suitable private finance partner, no doubt we'll lose that money too and it will be ploughed in to pay for someone else's hospital. Monetary prizes have been ploughed back into the schools and their projects. Under Home Office rules police could only plough back fines into road safety improvements if offenders were caught on cameras. Should the cut materialize, he said, he would plough the savings back into his company to buy new equipment and hire 30 additional employees. Both were working and ploughing their earnings back into the home and into comforts for their only child. In Yellowstone, we turned a large number of campground operations over to a concessionaire and plowed the income back into campground facilities. Synonyms invest in, put money into, sink money into, lay out money on plow under Bury in the soil by plowing. Example sentencesExamples And, of course, by not plowing under the crop residue, the farmers save on costs of labor, fuel, tractors, and other equipment. If they guess wrong, an entire crop could left in the field to be plowed under. Instead of being cut and sold, the cover crops are plowed under to nourish the soil. Straw can be plowed under, but that costs about $8 to $10 an acre. All perennial weeds need to be plowed under completely when the field is prepared. plow up 1Till (soil) completely or thoroughly. Example sentencesExamples When we plow up more land than can be farmed, grade and disrupt natural landscapes, we provide fertile ground for non-native tumbleweeds and exotic invasive plants. Papa would borrow a tiller from a friend and plow up the patch making room for two rows of twelve plants each. He sees his father plow up the prairie, watches his parents' dreams of agricultural riches pulverized along with the dirt. 1.1Uncover by plowing. Origin Late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th century; earlier (16th–17th centuries) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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