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plow

/plaʊ/

plow is the alternative spelling of plough.

Meaning of plough

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.

See all 17 meanings of plough

Forms of plow

Noun
pluralplows
Verb
third-person singular presentplows
present participleplowing
past participleplowed
pastplowed

Words formed from plow

Phrases with plow

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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

  1. ploverlike
  2. ploverness
  3. plovers
  4. plovery
  5. plovs
  6. plow
  7. plow ahead
  8. plow back
  9. plow down
  10. plow in
  11. plow into

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