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单词 ploughman
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plough or (N American or archaic) plow /plow/

noun
  1. An instrument for turning up the soil in ridges and furrows
  2. A joiner's plane for making grooves
  3. Agriculture (figurative)
  4. A plough-team
  5. Ploughed land
  6. (with cap) the grouping formed by the seven brightest stars of the constellation of the Great Bear
transitive verb
  1. To turn up with a plough
  2. To make furrows or ridges in
  3. To make with a plough
  4. To put into or render with a plough (also figurative)
  5. To tear, force, or cut a way through
  6. To furrow
  7. To wrinkle
  8. To reject in an examination (old inf)
  9. To fail in (a subject) (old inf)
intransitive verb
  1. To work with a plough
  2. (with through or into) to crash, force one's way, move, drive, etc, violently or uncontrollably (through or into; see also plough (one's way) through below)
  3. To fail (old inf)
ORIGIN: Late OE plōh, plōg a ploughland; cf ON plōgr

ploughˈable adjective

ploughˈer noun

ploughˈing noun

ploughˈwise adverb and adjective

As in ploughing

ploughˈboy noun

A boy who drives or guides horses in ploughing

ploughˈgate noun (Scot hist)

  1. An undetermined or variable unit of land, by later writers taken as about 50 English acres, but earlier much more
  2. A quantity of land of the extent of 100 Scots acres

ploughˈ-iron noun

The coulter, share, or other iron part of a plough

ploughˈ-jogger noun (facetious)

A ploughman

ploughˈland noun

  1. Land suitable for tillage
  2. As much land as could be tilled with one plough (with a proportionate amount of pasture), a carucate or eight oxgangs (historical)

ploughˈman noun (pl ploughˈmen)

A man who ploughs

ploughman's lunch noun

A cold meal of bread, cheese, cold meat, pickle, etc

ploughman's spikenard see under spikenard

Plough Monday noun

An old ploughmen's festival, the Monday after Twelfth Day, supposed to mark the resumption of work after the holidays

ploughˈshare noun

  1. (OE scear ploughshare, from scieran to shear, cut) the detachable part of a plough that cuts the undersurface of the sod from the ground
  2. A bird's pygostyle (also ploughshare bone)

ploughˈ-staff noun

A tool for clearing a plough of earth, etc

ploughˈ-stilt noun

A plough-handle

ploughˈ-tail noun

  1. The end of a plough where the handles are
  2. Farm labour (figurative)

ploughˈ-team noun

The team of horses, oxen, etc (usu two), that pulls a simple plough

ploughˈ-tree noun

A plough-handle

ploughˈwright noun

Someone who makes and mends ploughs

plough a lonely furrow

To be separated from one's former friends and associates and go one's own way

plough back (figurative)

To reinvest (profits of a business) in that business

plough in

To cover with earth by ploughing

plough on

To make laborious progress

plough (one's way) through

To work, read, eat, etc, steadily but slowly and laboriously through

plough the sands

To work in vain or to no purpose

put one's hand to the plough

To begin an undertaking
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