plow

1. 1.

   a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

   Synonymsplough

   Broadertool

   Narrowerbull tonguemoldboard plow

Other forms of plow

plural

plows·

past tense

plowed·

present participle

plowing·

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 plow

What does plow mean?

plow means "to break and turn over earth especially with a plow". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plow?

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

What is another word for plow?

Close synonyms include plough, turn, cover, treat, handle. 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 plow a common word?

plow 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 plow?

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