Plough

(n. & v.) See Plow.

(n.) A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.

(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.

(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.

(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.

(v. t.) To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

(n.) 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.

(v. i.) To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.

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• They would manufacture more and plough less. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They will fight nature no longer as dull conscripts of the pick and plough, but for a splendid conquest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We worship the plough, and not the fruit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You have already as good as put your hand to the plough: you are too consistent to withdraw it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Charles Newbold in 1797 took out the first patent in the United States for a plough--all parts cast in one piece of solid iron except the beam and handles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They disappear before the railway snow-plough more quickly than they came. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The gunboats, however, ploughed their way through without other damage than to their appearance. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I sometimes feared we had missed the way and got into the ploughed grounds or the marshes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The clocks are on the stroke of three, and the furrow ploughed among the populace is turning round, to come on into the place of execution, and end. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Jethro Tull in England shortly after invented and introduced a combined system of drilling, ploughing and cultivating. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Gerald likes the man ploughing the best, his trousers are torn, he is ploughing with an ox, being I suppose a German peasant. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He brought me a lovely tropical parrot in faience, of Dresden ware, also a man ploughing, and two mice climbing up a stalk, also in faience. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Guns which were heard at Brussels were ploughing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and the resolute survivors closing in. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You silly thing, he was a Roman farmer, and he was ploughing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The ploughing of certain sacred lands near Delphi by the Phocians was, for example, the pretext for a sanguinary Sacred War. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Having passed the Island of Cythera during the night, by next morning the yacht was ploughing the placid waters of the Cretan Sea. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Disk cultivators are those in which disk blades instead of ploughs are used with which to disturb the soil already broken. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This has been evidenced by the fact that in the United States alone nearly eleven thousand patents on ploughs were issued during the nineteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They also contriv ed to temper the metal, and to make helmets, swords, lance-points, ploughs, tools, and other implements of iron. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The general features, the beam, handles, and share, have existed in ploughs from the earliest ages in history. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The inventions of centuries in ploughs have proceeded along the lines of the elements above enumerated. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Ridges of faces are thrown to this side and to that, and the ploughs go steadily onward. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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