Definitions
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- To sully.
- noun A plow.
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- verb transitive To
sully . - noun A
plough .
Etymologies
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From Middle English sulwen, solwen, solewen, variant of Middle English sulien ("to sully"), or representing an unrecorded Old English *solgian (“to soil, sully”), related to Old High German solagōn ("to soil, sully, make dirty"). More at sully.
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Middle English suluh, solowe, from Old English sulh, from Proto-Germanic *sulhuz, from Proto-Indo-European *selk-, *solk- (“to pull”) (compare Latin sulcus ("furrow"), Tocharian B sälk ("to pull out"), Ancient Greek ἑλκύω (helkúō, "to drag"), ὁλκός (holkós, "draft"), Albanian hulli ("furrow"), heq ("take away, drag") dialectal helk, Old Armenian հեղգ (hełg, "slow-going, lagging")).
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