Plow

Other words from plow's letters

noun

  1. The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.

Synonyms: carrucate, carve, hide, plough, ploughgate, ploughland, plow, plowgate, plowland

noun

  1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
  2. The use of a plough; tillage.
  3. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
  4. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
  5. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.

Synonyms: sull, zowl, carucate

verb

  1. To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
  2. To use a plough.
  3. To have sex with, penetrate.
  4. To move with force.
  5. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
  6. To run through, as in sailing.
  7. To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
  8. (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
  9. (university slang) To fail (a student).

Synonyms: flunk, get up in, pound, sleep with, chamfer, groove, rut

noun

  1. Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed

Synonyms: carucate

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