plough vs plow
Definitions
noun
- a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Examples
Well, I hobbled along, and we ploughed all day; and come night, I boohooed and cried a good deal, and the children gits round me, and asks 'What's the matter, Peter?'
We had to walk across a ploughed field.
My fingertips at this point were being sliced to the bone on the cheesewire strings but with usual English politeness i ploughed on now wanting fiona to hurray up.
Definitions
verb
- move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
noun
- a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
Examples
Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil.
Farmers occasionally plow up old Indian relics.
An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
