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trench-ploughing

trench-ploughing is the present participle and gerund of trench-plough.

Meaning of trench-plough

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To plough with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

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Questions about trench-ploughing

What is trench-ploughing the present participle and gerund of?
Trench-ploughing is the present participle and gerund of trench-plough.

Words near trench-ploughing in the dictionary

  1. Trench Town
  2. trench warfare
  3. trench-coated
  4. trench-plough
  5. trench-ploughed
  6. trench-ploughing
  7. trench-ploughs
  8. trench-plow
  9. trench-plowed
  10. trench-plowing
  11. trench-plows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trench-ploughing (page history and authors); trench-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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