English Dictionary

plough

/plaʊ/

verb

(transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting. / (intransitive) To use a plough. / To move with force. / To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

He used a plough to till the field.

意味（1）

(transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.

I've still got to plough that field.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To use a plough.

Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.

意味（3）

To move with force.

Trucks ploughed through the water to ferry flood victims to safety.

意味（4）

To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.

意味（5）

(nautical) To run through, as in sailing.

With speed we plough the watery way.

意味（6）

(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.

意味（7）

(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.

意味（8）

(UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).

The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.

意味（9）

(transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.