Definitions for ploughing
plough·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plowing, ploughingnoun

   tilling the land with a plow

   "he hired someone to do the plowing for him"

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1. ploughingnoun

   the breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.

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1. ploughing

   A plough or plow (US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame, with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has been fundamental to farming for most of history. The earliest ploughs had no wheels; such a plough was known to the Romans as an aratrum. Celtic peoples first came to use wheeled ploughs in the Roman era.The prime purpose of ploughing is to turn over the uppermost soil, bringing fresh nutrients to the surface while burying weeds and crop remains to decay. Trenches cut by the plough are called furrows. In modern use, a ploughed field is normally left to dry and then harrowed before planting. Ploughing and cultivating soil evens the content of the upper 12 to 25 centimetres (5 to 10 in) layer of soil, where most plant feeder roots grow. Ploughs were initially powered by humans, but the use of farm animals is considerably more efficient. The earliest animals worked were oxen. Later, horses and mules were used in many areas. With the Industrial Revolution came the possibility of steam engines to pull ploughs. These in turn were superseded by internal-combustion-powered tractors in the early 20th century. Use of the traditional plough has decreased in some areas threatened by soil damage and erosion. Used instead is shallower ploughing or other less-invasive conservation tillage.

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1. ploughing

   Ploughing is the agricultural process of breaking and turning over the upper layer of soil using a tool, machinery, or beast of burden known as a plough (or plow). This process helps to bring fresh nutrients to the surface, bury crop residues and weeds, aerate the soil, and prepare it for seed planting.

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1. Ploughing

   of Plough

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ploughing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ploughing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ploughing in a Sentence

1. Frederick Douglass 1817-1895:

   If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

2. Frederick Douglass:

   Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

3. Zhao Tong:

   Kim’s speech ... indicates how precarious its economy is now. Coupled with the fact that it needs fertiliser for the spring ploughing, it’s no surprise that North Korea would agree to reopen its borders now.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ploughing
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ploughing
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughing
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ploughing