- [countable] a large piece of farming equipment with one or several curved blades (= metal cutting parts), pulled by a tractor or by animals. It is used for digging and turning over soil, especially before seeds are planted.
- Oxen were used to pull ploughs.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- heavy
- horse-drawn
- ox-drawn
- …
- draw
- pull
- horse
- team
- furrow
- …
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- the Plough(British English)(North American English the Big Dipper)[singular] a group of seven bright stars that can only be seen from the northern half of the world
Word Originlate Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th cent.; earlier (16th–17th cents) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow.
Idioms
under the plough
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