1 [C] a large piece of farming equipment with one or several curved blades, pulled by a TRACTOR or by animals. It is used for digging and turning over soil, especially before seeds are planted.
seealsoSNOWPLOUGH
2 (the Plough) (BrE) (AmE the Big Dipper) [sing.] a group of seven bright stars that can only be seen from the northern half of the world
IDIOMS
under the plough (BrE, formal) (of land) used for growing crops, not for keeping animals on
verb to dig and turn over a field or other area of land with a plough:
[VN] ploughed fields [also V]
IDIOMS
plough a lonely, your own, etc, furrow (literary) to do things that other people do not do, or be interested in things that other people are not interested in
PHRASALVERBS
plough sth<->back (in / into sth)
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