What does PLOW mean?

Definitions for PLOW
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. plow, ploughverb

    a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

  2. plow, plough, turnverb

    to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

    "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"

  3. cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, addressverb

    act on 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"

  4. plow, ploughverb

    move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

    "The ship plowed through the water"

Wikipedia

  1. plow

    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 These in turn were superseded by internal-combustion-powered tractors in the early 20th century.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. plow

    A plow is a piece of agricultural equipment, usually pulled by animals or a tractor, designed to prepare soil for planting by turning it over and breaking it up. This process helps to bury crop residue, control weeds, and mix soil nutrients. Plows vary in designs and sizes, including mouldboard, chisel, and disc plows, among others, each serving a different purpose or used under different soil conditions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plownoun

    alt. of Plough

  2. Plowverb

    alt. of Plough

  3. Plowverb

    alt. of Plough

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Plow

    plow. Old spelling of plough.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Plow

    Contact arms projecting downwards from the motors, trucks, or bodies of electric street cars, which enter the underground conduit through the slot and carry contact pieces or brushes, to take the current for driving the motors from the leads within the conduit.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLOW in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLOW in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of PLOW in a Sentence

  1. Chris Finch:

    Things are tough right now, we’ve got to plow through them.

  2. Ferréol of Uzès:

    [the monk] who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers

  3. Mitch McConnell:

    We're going to plow right through it.

  4. Ryan Price:

    In the church, we have a saying, keep your hand on the plow, you're plowing hard ground, the roots of racism and inequity are deep … more reason to hold on tight and keep at it for the sake of truth, humanity and unity. The debate over critical race theory is in schools and government, but now it's starting to infiltrate and divide the Christian church. ( iStock) Critical race theory has begun to cause fissures in evangelical circles. In 2019 the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most conservative Christian denominations, adopted Resolution 9, which accepted some of the tenets of CRT as a.

  5. Dwight D Eisenhower:

    Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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