plough

Betekenis (Engels)

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. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
5. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
6. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7. A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

Verb

1. To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
2. To use a plough.
3. To move with force.
4. (colloquial) To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
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. 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. To fail (a student).
10. To have sex with; to penetrate.

Concepten

ploegen

ploeg

beploegen

omploegen

snijmachine

ploeteren

ploegmes

Synoniemen

plow

till

cultivate

furrow

ploughshare

dig

plow

hoe

turn

fail

plough through

pluck

plunge

rabbet

rabbet plane

rummage

share

shoving

snowplough

snowplow

sow

spade

turn over

wagon

Charles’s Wain

vegetable plot

make furrows

ploughed land

badger plane

aura

groove-cutting chisel

groovine

matching plane badger plane

plow planer

box plane

bleu

break

break new ground

burrow

Great Bear

grind

grow

plant

🌱

ploughing

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/plaʊ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: plouh

Overgenomen van Oudengels: plōh

Verwant aan Schots: pleuch

Verwant aan Noord-Fries: plog

Verwant aan Fries: ploech

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Ploog

Verwant aan Nederlands: ploeg

Verwant aan Russisch: плуг

Verwant aan Duits: Pflug

Verwant aan Deens: plov

Verwant aan Zweeds: -

Verwant aan Noors: plog

Verwant aan IJslands: plógur

Verwant aan Oudengels: sulh

In summary

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, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.