ploughs

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
   • Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake

   Synonyms:

   sull

2. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
3. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
4. The use of a plough; tillage.
   • If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report, volume 8, page 47
5. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

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