plow
pronunciation
How to pronounce plow in British English:
UK [plaʊ]
How to pronounce plow in American English:
US [plaʊ]
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- Noun:
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
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- Verb:
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
Word Origin
- plow (n.)
- late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cognates: Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin. Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow" (see sulcus). As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.
- plow (v.)
- late 14c., from plow (n.). Transferred sense from 1580s. Related: Plowed; plowing.
Example
- 1. Europeans would eventually borrow chinese innovations like the plow and experience an agricultural revolution .
- 2. The huge animals use their heads like a plow to push snow aside in search of food .
- 3. A major invention was the adjustable strut which , by altering the distance of the blade and the beam , could precisely set the depth of the plow .
- 4. " Yoked " is an agricultural term in which twoanimals are connected together at the neck by a block of wood so thatboth may be used to pull a plow .
- 5. To bury it in the seafloor a jet plow a tool that shoots ocean water into the sea floor at high to pressures to blast a trench will cut a path for the cable , which will eventually be covered over again with sediment .