plough meaning

• Verb: plough  plaw
  Usage: Brit, Cdn (=plow)
  
  1. To break and turn over earth especially with a plough
     "Farmer Jones ploughed his east field last week"
     - plow [N. Amer], turn 
  2. Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
     - cover, treat, handle, plow [N. Amer], deal, address 
  3. Move in a way resembling that of a plough cutting into or going through the soil
     "The ship ploughed through the water"
     - plow [N. Amer]
  Noun: plough  plaw
  Usage: Brit, Cdn (=plow)
  
  1. A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
     - plow [N. Amer]
  Noun: Plough
  Usage: Brit (=Big Dipper)
  
  1. A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
     - Big Dipper [N. Amer], Dipper, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon

  Derived forms: ploughing, ploughs, ploughed

  See also: ploughing

  Type of: asterism, broach, go, initiate, locomote, move, till, tool, travel

  Part of: Great Bear, Ursa Major

  Encyclopedia: Plough

• 
  [Architecture]
  

  See plow.

• 
  [Business]
  AmE spelling plow) // verb

  PHRASAL VERBS

  plough sth back (into sth); plough sth back in

  to put money made as profit back into a business in order to improve it:

  Surpluses will be ploughed back into the company to fund new projects.

  plough sth into sth

  to invest a large amount of money in a company or project:

  The company has ploughed an estimated $85 million into the online operation.

  Shareholders were reluctant to plough more money into the company.

• 
  [Engineering]
  A groove cut lengthwise with the grain in a piece of wood.

• plough in:    To cover with eart ...
• plough into:    plough into sth if ...
• plough on:    Verb: plough onCon ...

Examples

1. he shall teach man the use of the plough.
2. the soil is hard and reluctant to the plough ..
3. the land ploughs hard after the drought.
4. the field ploughs well after the rain.
5. not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil.