plough
/plaʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.09 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
noun
Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
noun
Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
noun
A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
Example Sentences
- "Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake"
- "The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture."
- "The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate."
- "It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]"
- "If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop."
- "Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough."
Etymology
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: plouh, plōh, plógr, *plōgaz
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /plaʊ/
- British English: /plaʊ/