Plough Definition
(literary or historical in the United States) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
A carucate of land; a ploughland.
- wagon
- Charles's Wain
- dipper
- big-dipper
- wain
- plow
To move with force.
(astronomy, UK) The common name for the brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.
Origin of Plough
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From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland") and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)"), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough"). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou (“plough"), West Frisian ploech (“plough"), North Frisian plog (“plough"), Dutch ploeg (“plough"), Low German Ploog (“plough"), German Pflug (“plough"), Danish plov (“plough"), Swedish and Norwegian plog (“plough"), Icelandic plógur (“plough"). Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow"); see sullow.
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