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Plow   /plaʊ/   Listen
Plow

noun
1.
A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing.  Synonym: plough.
verb
(past & past part. plowed or ploughed; pres. part. plowing or ploughing)
1.
To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.  Synonyms: plough, turn.  "Turn the earth in the Spring"
2.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
3.
Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil.  Synonym: plough.



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"Plow" Quotes from Famous Books



... dense, and other climates and soils were occupied, better processes were developed, and more varied were the productions. Animal power and rude tools were gradually brought into use, and about 1000 years before Christ "a plow with a beam, share and handles" is mentioned. Then agriculture is spoken of as being in a flourishing condition, and artificial drainage was resorted to. Grecian farming in the days of its prosperity ...
— How to Get on in the World - A Ladder to Practical Success • Major A.R. Calhoon

... fat man sold collars, then the price of collars was exactly what it should be; but all other clothing was tragically too expensive. They admired and loved one another now. They went profoundly into the science of business, and indicated that the purpose of manufacturing a plow or a brick was so that it might be sold. To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher, the aviator, nor the brave young district attorney, but the great sales-manager, ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... him, "No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom ...
— His Life - A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels • William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong

... better than to make verses; and indeed of all the labors for a livelihood in which a man may cultivate verse, that of literature is the last he should choose. Compare the literary efforts of Burns with the songs he wrote when home from his plow! ...
— Home Again • George MacDonald

... three days before it takes visible shape before you. The males are the pioneers, and come several days in advance of the females. By the time both are here and the pairs have begun to prospect for a place to nest, sugar-making is over, the last vestige of snow has disappeared, and the plow is brightening its mould-board in the ...
— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs


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