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
Perhaps the most important farm implement used by the early settlers was the animal drawn plough It was used to dig the soil and make it softer and better for the crops to grow Most ploughs were pulled by teams of horses or oxen and were equipped with a ploughshare for cutting a furrow, a blade or coulter for forming the walls of the furrow and a mould board to shape the furrow