plow
/plaʊ/
plow is the alternative spelling of plough.
Meaning of plough
Noun
plough (plural ploughs)
- 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
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- 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
- A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
Forms of plow
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | plows |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | plows |
| present participle | plowing |
| past participle | plowed |
| past | plowed |
Words formed from plow
- ard plow
- gangplow
- mine plow
- moldboard plow
- motor plow
- plowbote
- plowboy
- plowgate
- plowgirl
- plowhorse
- plowland
- plowless
- plowlike
- plowman
- plowpan
- plowpoint
- plowshare
- plowstaff
- plowtail
- plowwoman
- plowwright
- plowzone
- rain follows the plow
- Rome plow
- snowplow
- snow plow
- sodbuster plow
- turnplow
- overplow
- plowable
- plow down
- plower
- plow one's way
- plow over
- plow with one's heifer
- replow
- up-plow
Phrases with plow
- plow in
- plow on
- plow up
- ice plow
- foot plow
- gang plow
- mole plow
- plow back
- plow into
- plow iron
- plow sole
- plow stop
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Questions about plow
- What is plow the alternative spelling of?
- Plow is the alternative spelling of plough.
- How do you pronounce plow?
- Plow is pronounced /plaʊ/ (US).
Words near plow in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plow (page history and authors); plough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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