A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting
The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow
To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc
A tool which cuts a furrow through the soil but – unlike a ard – turns the soil over The plough appeared in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC The plough drawn by oxen or other animal appeared in Europe around ??? BC See Cross-ploughing
plough ploughs ploughing ploughed in AM, use plow1. A plough is a large farming tool with sharp blades which is pulled across the soil to turn it over, usually before seeds are planted. see also snowplough
When someone ploughs an area of land, they turn over the soil using a plough. They ploughed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland. a carefully ploughed field. + ploughing plough·ing In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing
to plough a furrow: see furrow. Variant of plow. the group of seven bright stars that can be seen only from the northern part of the world American Equivalent: the Big Dipper