Definition of Ploughs

1. Verb. (third-person singular of plough) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ploughs

1. plough [v] - See also: plough

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploughs

ploughhorse
ploughhorses
ploughing
ploughing back
ploughing into
ploughing on
ploughing through
ploughings
ploughland
ploughlike
ploughman
ploughman's
ploughman's lunch
ploughman's lunches
ploughmen
ploughs (current term)
ploughs back
ploughs into
ploughs on
ploughs through
ploughshare
ploughshares
ploughtail
ploughtails
ploughwise
ploughwoman
ploughwomen
ploughwright
ploughwrights
ploughzone

Literary usage of Ploughs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Alexander Pope (1760)
"When they *' employed two ploughs in a field, ... they could plough in a day, and fet their ploughs at the " two ends of that ..."

2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"And in tini outset I int wo require a ploughing machine, and ans of yoking separate ploughs held by When there no longer remain any ani - ad we have a ..."

3. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1826)
"We shall take them in the order of swing ploughs, wheel ploughs, pronged implements, harrows, and rollers, 4c. SUBSECT. 1. Of Swing 1'loughs, or such as arc ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"On this bed the ploughs are so set on the arms that the ore travels in the reverse direction and is drawn to the centre of the bed. ..."

5. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1870)
"As early as 1617, some ploughs were set to work in the Virginia plantation, but in that year the governor complained to the company that the colony " did ..."

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