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Meaning of PLOUGH

Pronunciation:  plaw

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
  2. [n]  a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
  3. [v]  to break and turn over earth esp. with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
  4. [v]  move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water"
 
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 Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles's Wain, Dipper, plow, plow, plow, turn, Wagon, Wain
 
 See Also: asterism, bull tongue, cut into, delve, dig, disk, go, Great Bear, harrow, locomote, moldboard plow, mouldboard plough, move, ridge, till, tool, travel, turn over, Ursa Major

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Plough\, n. & v.
See {Plow}.
 
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Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing a plough in your dream, represents growth, expansion and the cultivation of new ideas and projects.
 
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Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

first referred to in Gen. 45:6, where the Authorized Version has "earing," but the Revised Version "ploughing;" next in Ex. 34:21 and Deut. 21:4. The plough was originally drawn by oxen, but sometimes also by asses and by men. (See AGRICULTURE.)

 
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