n
(obsolete) plowing or fallowing
n
(agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
v
(agriculture) To plant seeds at the intersections of a criss-cross pattern previously marked out on the ground.
n
(agriculture) A furrow left in the field that is slightly wider than twice the width of a plow bottom, usually occurring at the completion of a field.
v
(agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
n
A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
v
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
n
(UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it
n
A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
n
One who furrows something, such as the brow.
n
Alternative form of gongpit: a cesspit; a latrine; an outhouse. [(obsolete) The cesspit of a latrine or outhouse; a latrine or outhouse itself.]
n
A person employed to dig graves.
n
(obsolete) A ditch or trench.
n
(obsolete or UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A trench or drain; particularly, a trench or hollow behind the stalls of cows or horses for receiving their dung and urine.
v
(transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
n
A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.
n
The use of a plough; tillage.
n
A compacted layer of soil resulting from the use of ploughs or similar equipment.
adj
Moving, like a plough on a field, alternately from left to right and from right to left.
v
(agriculture) To cover by plowing
v
(agriculture) To destory (crops) by turning them into the ground with a plow
adj
Alternative form of ploughed (“well-trodden or well-researched”) [Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).]
v
(UK, agriculture) To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To receive as a return or reward in the same measure as one's exertions or intentions, in a good or a bad sense; to receive justice or one's just deserts.
n
(historical) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
n
A mechanical component that feeds material back into a machine.
v
(transitive, rare) To provide with a new lawn.
v
To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
n
(US, archaeology) A professional excavator on cultural resource management projects, who has done extensive field work.
v
(agriculture) To thin out.
n
(informal) The breaking up of land, as with a plough, for agricultural purposes.
v
(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
n
ploughing to the depth of the subsoil
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(UK, dialect) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
n
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
n
(agriculture) An implement for breaking up roots and mixing additives into the upper layers of soil.
v
To cut furrows or ditches in.
v
(transitive) To plough with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
v
(transitive) To cover as if under a furrow; to plough in.
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