'Ploughing' definitions:
Definition of 'ploughing'
From: WordNet
noun
Tilling the land with a plow; "he hired someone to do the plowing for him" [syn: plowing, ploughing]
Definition of 'Ploughing'
From: GCIDE
- Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plowed (ploud) or Ploughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or Ploughing.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. [1913 Webster]
- Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Joinery) 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. [1913 Webster]
- To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
- To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing. [1913 Webster] Plow