[
US
/ˈpɫaʊɪŋ/
]
NOUN
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tilling the land with a plow
he hired someone to do the plowing for him
How To Use plowing In A Sentence
- 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. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
- Ruddy-faced Frank, looking far younger than his 90 years, recalls how he worked with teams of Clydesdale horses, sometimes in pairs and threes for ploughing.
- In Roman times November was a month of hard work in ploughing and sowing.
- It showed two white police pickup trucks, with large bullbars on the front bumpers, plowing separately into a group of protesters. SeMissourian.com Headlines
- Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat.
- As with any verbatim transcript, it can be a little hard to follow in places, but it's worth plowing through the whole thing if you're really interested in all this.
- An earlier agricultural contest, the ploughing match, tested both the ploughman's skill and the plough's efficiency.
- That causes such hassles for retailers as longer police-response times, as well as less-frequent snow plowing and trash pickup.
- They lacked the long sleek lines of the local boats that went from tree to sea with such grace, under the shipwright's spell, turning the waves aside like coulters and combines, ploughing and harvesting.
- You'll see them sideslipping and snowplowing, while moving at a speed so slow it's painful to watch.