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# plough

«plough» in Mova's school dictionary: **A big farm tool, pulled by a tractor or animals, that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a plough, ploughs); verb (plough, ploughs, ploughed, ploughing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A big farm tool, pulled by a tractor or animals, that turns over and breaks up the soil to get it ready for planting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#m1)

2) (verb) To turn over soil with a plough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#m2)

3) (verb) To move or go forward with force: «the car ploughed into the fence». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#m3)

4) (verb) To keep going with something hard or boring: «plough through homework». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#m4)

5) The Plough: a group of seven bright stars (UK name for the Big Dipper). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In history and science, ploughs helped farmers grow more food. In everyday life, a snowplough clears snow from roads. In astronomy, the Plough points to the North Star. Phrases: «plough through», «snowplough», «plough on».

### examples

- The farmer ploughed the field before planting wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x1)
- Long ago, horses pulled the plough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x2)
- A snowplough cleared the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x3)
- I ploughed through my maths homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x4)
- The car skidded and ploughed into a hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x5)
- We found the Plough in the night sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x6)
- Three brothers are ploughing over there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/#x7)

### note

UK spelling; US spelling is «plow». Rhymes with «cow», not with «through» or «rough». Past: ploughed.

### In the corpora

- [Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/12/)
- [When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/6/)
- [In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/15/)
- [Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/)
- [Never dig deep tunnels in snow banks, especially near roads, because snow can collapse and ploughs cannot see you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «plough» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/plough/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.