ploughs in English

noun

1

a large farming implement with one or more blades fixed in a frame, drawn by a tractor or by animals and used for cutting furrows in the soil and turning it over, especially to prepare for the planting of seeds.

The strip shape of these plots suggests that they were ploughed with a heavy plough with a fixed mould board.

2

a yoga pose assumed by lying on one's back and swinging one's legs over one's head until the outstretched feet approach or touch the floor.

positions like plow and headstand can strain the neck

verb

1

turn up the earth of (an area of land) with a plow, especially before sowing.

Uncle Vic plowed his garden

synonyms: till, furrow, harrow, cultivate, work, break up

2

(especially of a vehicle) move in a fast and uncontrolled manner.

the car plowed into the side of a van

synonyms: crash, smash, career, plunge, bulldoze, hurtle, careen, cannon, run, drive, barrel

3

clear snow from (a road) using a snowplow.

the roads weren't yet plowed

synonyms: clear (of snow), shovel

4

fail (an examination).

Not many people plough Greats at 21 and become a professor of Latin at 33.

verb

till, furrow, harrow, cultivate, work, break up
clear (of snow), shovel
crash, smash, career, plunge, bulldoze, hurtle, careen, cannon, run, drive, barrel
trudge, plod, toil, wade, slog
address, cover, deal, treat, handle
turn

Use "ploughs" in a sentence

1. A 01 B 3 / 10 . . . Trussed-beam ploughs; Single-wheel ploughs.

2. The King, however dispirited, ploughs on.

3. The land ploughs hard after the drought.

4. The ploughs crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks.

5. Winter service superstructures, namely for snow ploughs and salt spreaders

6. Peasants wade knee deep in mud coaxing water buffalo to pull ploughs.

7. One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows. 

8. All were busily engaged, men at their ploughs , women at their looms.

9. The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs the Dough Dr Seuss 3rd Printing 1987JACKET COVER

10. While ploughs are clearing land, expanding livestock populations are denuding the land of vegetation.

11. Synonyms for Cultivates include farms, tends, ploughs, tills, crops, cultures, works, digs, fertilises and fertilizes

12. Ploughs were initially human-powered, but the process became considerably more efficient once animals were pressed into service.

13. 7 The wild boar ploughs the earth up like a furrow, and does irreparable damage in the cultivated lands.

14. Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus.

15. After 1000 BCE, the use of iron axes and ploughs became widespread and the jungles could be cleared with ease.

16. The vessel ploughs through the Billowy waters in onward progress, and the soul is left in silent harmony to enjoy the change.

17. The all-terrain vehicle ploughs through roads of red dust and the hot summer air is thick with dragonflies as we pass eucalyptus, waxy-leaved fragrant frangipani and mango trees.

18. As it is the only direct road pass between the cantons of Bern and Valais across the Bernese Alps, attempts are made to keep the road open as long as possible with snow ploughs.

19. If I know a song of Africa... of the giraffe... and the African new moon lying on her back... of the ploughs in the fields... and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers... does Africa know a song of me?