ploughest

Verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

1. (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
   • I've still got to plough that field.
2. (intransitive) To use a plough.
   • Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
3. To move with force.
   • Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
4. (colloquial, transitive) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
   • My brother ploughed me over.
5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
   • Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   chamfer, groove, rut

6. To run through, as in sailing.
   • With speed we plough the watery way.1725, Homer, “Book II”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

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