plow

verbdig up ground for cultivation

Word Origin & History

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 (cf. Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cf. 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 ...

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Example Sentences for plow

He said he had got to go up to Joe Charnick's to get his plow.

This was something of which the yokels, or men of the plow, often complained.

The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.

I have put my hand to the plow, and it shall not be withdrawn.

But he had his wakeness same as a common man, and it was the Plow Inn at Ramsey.

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verb dig up ground for cultivation

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