plough
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for plantingA device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
» The land had never been ploughed.
Das Land war noch nie gepflügt worden. — al_ex_an_der
Это была ни разу не паханая земля. — Selena777
blay_paul · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
5 sensesA device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake
The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
Pflug
плугplug
плугpluh
Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
The use of a plough; tillage.
A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Examples
30 sentencesThe land had never been ploughed.
ruЭто была ни разу не паханая земля. — Selena777
deDas Land war noch nie gepflügt worden. — al_ex_an_der
Yoke the oxen to the plough.
ruЗапряги волов в плуг. — Hellerick
deSpann die Ochsen vor den Pflug. — samueldora
The fields must be ploughed quickly.
This field has never been ploughed.
ruЭто поле никогда не возделывалось. — marafon
deDieses Feld wurde noch nie gepflügt. — Augustus
He exchanged a plough for a sword.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hideFrom Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
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Forms
plural: ploughsSynonyms
7 synonyms- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing:plow
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major:Big DipperDipperCharles-ap-s WainWainWagon