plough

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  1. noun Variant of plow.

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  • Part of it is much more in the shape of a plough, and one of the stars in that plough is the pole-star. —  The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
  • Have I not found myself rushing for a hundred places by automobile that I never should have started for at all by hayrick or snow-plough, and thus had saved myself that time wholly? —  The Hills of Hingham
  • Kansas 8,000 per cent Iowa 942 California 837 Minnesota 6,000 Michigan 330 Oregon 471 per cent Illinois, 457 Wisconsin, 550 It is thus that the wave of population moves onward in our Western States and Territories, that the axe and the plough are the pioneers of civilization, that farms, cities, and villages, the schoolhouse, and the church, rise from the wilderness, as if by the touch of an enchanter's wand. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
  • The men improvised a snow-plough, the strong horses floundering in front of it made roads and paths through the two feet of feathers that hid the world After lunch, the young people went for a frolic in the snow. —  The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm
  • We must endeavour to look at both We will suppose that there is but one plough in the world, and that two farmers apply for it Peter is the possessor of the only plough which is to be had in France; John and James wish to borrow it. —  Essays on Political Economy
 

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