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1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.

2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.

Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up
With her prepared nails.

Shak.

With speed we plow the watery way.

Pope.

3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.

4. (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.

To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. — To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.

Plow
(Plow, Plough) v. i. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. Shak.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ?

Isa. xxviii. 24.

Plowable
(Plow"a*ble, Plough"a*ble) a. Capable of being plowed; arable.

Plowbote
(Plow"bote`, Plough"bote`) n. (Eng. Law) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

Plowboy
(Plow"boy`, Plough"boy`), n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

Plower
(Plow"er, Plough"er) n. One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

Plowfoot
(Plow"foot`, Plough"foot`) n. An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

Plowgang
(Plow"gang`, Plough"gang`) n. Same as Plowgate.

Plowgate
(Plow"gate`, Plough"gate`) n. The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.

Not having one plowgate of land.

Sir W. Scott.

Plowhead
(Plow"head`, Plough"head`) n. The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

Plowland
(Plow"land`, Ploug"land`) n.

1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

2. (O. Eng. Law) the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide.

Plowman
(Plow"man, Plough"man) n.; pl. -men

1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay.

2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.

Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.

Plowpoint
(Plow"point`, Plough"point`) n. A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.