pleugh

Noun

pleugh (plural pleughs)

1. (Scotland) plow.
   • But there's mair in't than that;-for ye hae seen the heel and sole clout of a Scots pleugh yersell, and when there was as muckle strength afore her as there should hae been, she never gaed steady but whan she had a good grip o' the yird; and when that was the case, ye behoved to lay a gay steep on...1822, The Farmer's Magazine - Volume 23, page 87
   • Also we have witness, as weel in holy writt as in profane history, of the honour in quhilk husbandrie was held of old, and how prophets have been taken from the pleugh, and great captains raised up to defend their ain countries, sic as Cincinnatus, and the like, who fought not the common enemy with...1828, Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate