noun / verb
plow
PLOW/plaʊ/
A farming implement that cuts and turns soil, or to use it.
The plow turns a strip of soil beside a fresh furrow.
Etymology
Old English ploh named both the tool and the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. Its use for the implement may come from a Scandinavian cognate; its deeper origin is uncertain.
In context
harnessed me to the plow then her black demons drove me out into the field one of them held the plow the other one led me by a line
More examples
- The farmer attaches a plow to the tractor.
- We plow the field before planting corn.
- They plowed the garden last fall.
Forms
plow · plows · plowed · plowing
plowshare noun — The cutting blade of a plow.