Usually means: Tool for turning over soil.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. plough: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plough, the Plough, the plough: Merriam-Webster
  3. plough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plough, the Plough: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Plough, plough: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plough, plough: Wordnik
  8. plough, the Plough, the plough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Plough, plough: Wiktionary
  10. plough: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. plough: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Plough, plough: Dictionary.com
  13. plough: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Plough (disambiguation), Plough, The Plough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Plough: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. plough: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. plough: Rhymezone
  18. plough: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. plough: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Plough: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. plough: FreeDictionary.org
  22. plough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The Plough, plough: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. plough: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. plough: Legal dictionary
  3. plough: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Plough, plough: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. plough: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. plough: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Plough: Easton Bible
  2. Plough: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plough, plough: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Plough: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ploughing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
noun:  The use of a plough; tillage.
noun:  A joiner's plane for making grooves.
noun:  A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
noun:  (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
verb:  (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a plough.
verb:  To move with force.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
verb:  To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
verb:  (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
verb:  (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
verb:  (transitive, vulgar) To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
noun:  (astronomy, British, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major) [(astronomy, British, common name) The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.]
noun:  Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide. [Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.]

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