a large piece of farming equipment with one or several curved blades, (= metal cutting parts) pulled by a tractor or by animals. It is used for digging and turning over soil, especially before seeds are planted.Topics Farmingc2
plow
verb
/plaʊ/
/plaʊ/
(North American English)
(British Englishplough)
[transitive, intransitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they plow
/plaʊ/
/plaʊ/
he / she / it plows
/plaʊz/
/plaʊz/
past simple plowed
/plaʊd/
/plaʊd/
past participle plowed
/plaʊd/
/plaʊd/
-ing form plowing
/ˈplaʊɪŋ/
/ˈplaʊɪŋ/
IdiomsPhrasal Verbs
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plow somethingto dig and turn over a field or other area of land with a plow
plowed fields
Topics Farmingc2
Idioms
plow a lonely, your own, etc., furrow
(literary)to do things that other people do not do, or be interested in things that other people are not interested in