plow
/plaʊ/ verb C2- To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. · I've still got to plough that field.
- To use a plough. · Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
- To move with force. · Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.
- To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping. · My brother ploughed me over.· Three people were ploughed down when he lost control of the truck.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- To run through, as in sailing.
- To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
He/she/it plows · Past plowed · Past participle plowed · -ing form plowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- plow
- He/she/it
- plows
- Past
- plowed
- Past participle
- plowed
- -ing form
- plowing
From the library
“I hunt among the plowed fields tonight,” and he plunged downward through the bushes, to the stream at the bottom of the valley.
“I was among the plowed lands.
But I’ve put my hand to the plow and I won’t look back.”
The firs in the Haunted Wood were all feathery and wonderful; the birches and wild cherry-trees were outlined in pearl; the plowed fields were stretches of snowy dimples; and there was a crisp tang in the air that was glorious.
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