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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Plowed} (ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or {Ploughing}.]
1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak.
With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope.
3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, noun, 5.
4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
{To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
{To plow up}, to turn out of the ground by plowing.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), noun [OE. plouh, plou, AS. pl[=o]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. pl[=o]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas.]
1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. --Dryden.
2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson.
3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.]
Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. --Tale of Gamelyn.
4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
6. (Astron.) Same as {Charles's Wain}.
{Ice plow}, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.]
{Mackerel plow}. See under {Mackerel}.
{Plow alms}, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. --Cowell.
{Plow beam}, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See {Beam}, noun, 9.
{Plow Monday}, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays.
{Plow staff}. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle.
{Snow plow}, a structure, usually [Lambda]-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), verb (used without an object) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. --Shak.
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? --Isa. xxviii. 24.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plow
noun: a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing [syn: {plough}]
verb
1: 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: {plough}, {turn}]
2: deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: {cover}, {treat}, {handle}, {deal}, {address}]
3: move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water" [syn: {plough}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "plow": all-crop harvester, backset, baler, bank, bean harvester, beet harvester, binder, break, breaker, canal, canalize, carve, cast plow, chamfer, channel, chisel, combine, corrugate, cotton picker, crab, crack, crimp, cultivate, cultivator, culture, cut, dado, delve, dig, dike, dip, disk, disk harrow, disk plow, ditch, drag, dress, drill, drill plow, engrave, fallow, feather, fertilize, fishtail, flute, force, four-bottom plow, furrow, gang plow, gash, goffer, gouge, grain harvester, groove, grub hook, gully, harrow, harvester, haymaker, header, hoe, hoe drill, incise, list, lister, lister cultivator, loop, middlebreaker, moldboard plow, mulch, peg-tooth harrow, planter, pleat, plow drill, porpoise, prairie breaker, press drill, prune, pull out, pull up, push down, rabbet, rake, ridge, rifle, roll, rotary plow, rut, scooter, score, scratch, seed plow, seeder, shovel plow, sideslip, skid, slit, snap machine, spade, spin, spiral, sprayer, spring-tooth harrow, stag gang, streak, striate, stunt, subsoil plow, sulky lister, sulky plow, swather, swivel plow, tedder, thin, thin out, thrasher, three-bottom plow, thresher, threshing machine, till, till the soil, trench, trench plow, trough, turn, turn over, turnplow, two-bottom plow, undulate, vineyard plow, walking plow, weed, weed out, windrower, work, wrinkle, yaw
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PLOW, noun An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.
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