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Definition of Ploughing
1. Noun. Tilling the land with a plow. "He hired someone to do the plowing for him"
Definition of Ploughing
1. Verb. (present participle of plough) ¹
2. Noun. the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ploughing
1. plough [v] - See also: plough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploughing
Literary usage of Ploughing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1868)
"Deep ploughing and thorough drainage allow the air more completely to permeate al!
parts of the soil, which aids greatly in warming and pulverizing the ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843)
"cess of ploughing such land, are discussed with equal skill and judgment. We have
been particularly pleased with the remarks of Mr Slight upon ..."
3. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"I have already fully described the nature of subsoil-ploughing. ...
By trench-ploughing, the under soil is brought to the surface, and, in fact, ..."
4. Letters and Other Writings of James Madison by James Madison (1865)
"The evil of pressing too hard upon the land has also been much increased by the
bad mode of ploughing it. Shallow ploughing, and ploughing up and down hilly ..."
5. Scandinavian Folk-lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the by William Alexander Craigie (1896)
"IT has sometimes happened that people have been heard and seen ploughing during
the night time. These are men who in their life-time have cheated their ..."
6. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"Steam ploughing. The art of cultivating land by the steam engine has now been
practically matured ; but as the requisite machinery would be too expensive ..."
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