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snow plough

snow plough is the alternative form of snowplow.

Meaning of snowplow

Noun

snowplow (plural snowplows)

  1. (US) A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.
  2. (US) A blade-like pushing device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow.
  3. (US) A maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.

See all 5 meanings of snowplow

Forms of snow plough

Noun
pluralsnow ploughs
Verb
third-person singular presentsnow ploughs
present participlesnow ploughing
past participlesnow ploughed
pastsnow ploughed

Questions about snow plough

What is snow plough the alternative form of?
Snow plough is the alternative form of snowplow.

Words near snow plough in the dictionary

  1. snow piles
  2. snow pillow
  3. snow pillows
  4. snow plant
  5. snow plants
  6. snow plough
  7. snow ploughed
  8. snow ploughing
  9. snow ploughs
  10. snow plow
  11. snow plowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snow plough (page history and authors); snowplow (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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