Definition of "plow" []

• A farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing. (noun)
• An implement of similar function, such as a snowplow. (noun)
• To break and turn over (earth) with a plow. (verb-transitive)
• To form (a furrow, for example) with a plow. (verb-transitive)
• To form furrows in with or as if with a plow: plow a field. (verb-transitive)

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• "Though Josiah Allen made a excuse of borrowin 'a plow (a _plow_, that time of night) to get away from my arguments on the Conference, and"
• "Which, in the case of the plow, is where specialization comes from: the blacksmiths who make the plowshares."
• "The horse drawn plow is (almost) a suggestion of a biodynamic estate."