plough – English noun declension

English noun forms of plough

Noun: plough
Singularplough
Pluralploughs

Sample Sentences

  • Meronyms: ploughshare, plowshare, share, moldboard, mouldboard, coulter, colter, jointer, chisel, ploughbeam, beam, ploughstaff, staff, hake
  • The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
  • The central theme of low-till agriculture is that the plough is not always necessary and that it should be used only when truly appropriate.
  • It's been three hours since a plough came through here, and now you can hardly even tell that it did! [the snow keeps falling heavily]
  • If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop. [1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report, volume 8, page 47:]
  • Rising in the north-east fairly high in the sky, Arcturus may be found by following round the curve of the plough. [2004, Amazing Physics Quiz, →ISBN, page 32:]
  • To many generations of rice farmers in rural Java, Indonesia, it was not the stars of Ursa Major that formed the plough, but the stars of Orion. [2005, Clive L. N. Ruggles, Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth, →ISBN:]
  • Across the Atlantic, what we call the Big Dipper has been called many other names. In England, this grouping of stars is seen as the plough. [2007, Mike Lynch, Florida Starwatch, →ISBN, page 52:]
  • Consider the Big Dipper, or as it is also known, the plough or the wagon. [2010, John Turner, Exploring the Other Island: A Seasonal Guide to Nature on Long Island, →ISBN:]
  • c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn
  • Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow. See: Old Norse Nouns 'plógr', Dutch Nouns 'ploeg', Russian Nouns 'плуг', German Nouns 'Pflug', Danish Nouns 'plov', Icelandic Nouns 'plógur', Old English Nouns 'sulh'.

Verbs referencing "plough"

German Nouns Pflug, Danish Nouns plov, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns plog.