1. plough - Noun
2. plough - Verb
4. Plough - Proper noun
See Plow.
A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
A carucate of land; a plowland.
A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
Same as Charles's Wain.
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.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
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 labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor what avail the plough or sail Or land or life, if freedom fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good. Andrei Tarkovsky
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands, Leave off your idle pain; Seek other mistress for your minds, Love's service is in vain. Robert Southwell
Don't yoke the plough before the horses. Dutch Proverb
Plough your furrows deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. American Proverb
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. Russian Proverb