plough
a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
• Syn:
plow
• Derivationally related forms:
plow (for: plow)
• Hypernyms:
tool
• Hyponyms:
bull tongue, moldboard plow, mouldboard plough
1. move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
- The ship plowed through the water
• Syn:
plow
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Verb Frames:
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week
- turn the earth in the Spring
• Syn:
plow, turn
• Derivationally related forms:
ploughing, plower (for: plow), plow (for: plow), plowing (for: plow)
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
till
• Hyponyms:
ridge, harrow, disk
• Entailment:
dig, delve, cut into, turn over
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
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