plough

1. 1.

   move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

   “The ship plowed through the water”

   Synonymsplow

   Broadertravel
2. 2.

   to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

   “Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week”

   “turn the earth in the Spring”

   Synonymsplowturn

   Broadertill

   Narrowerridgeharrow

   farming

Other forms of plough

plural

ploughs·

past tense

ploughed·

present participle

ploughing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plough

What does plough mean?

plough means "a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plough?

plough has 1 syllable: plough. In IPA it is /ˈplaʊ/.

What is another word for plough?

Close synonyms include Big Dipper, Dipper, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plough a common word?

plough is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with plough?

2 words rhyme with plough. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.