Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ploughing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plowed}
(ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or
{Ploughing}.]
1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till
with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow
a field.

2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run
through, as in sailing.

Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her
prepared nails. --Shak.

With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope.

3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a
book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, n., 5.

4. (Joinery) 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.

{To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

ploughing
n : tilling the land with a plow; "he hired someone to do the
plowing for him" [syn: {plowing}]


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