| plough |
noun & verb |
See Plow., A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow., Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry., A carucate of land; a plowland., A joiner’s plane for making grooves; a grooving plane., An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books., Same as Charles’s Wain., 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., To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing., To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5., 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 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. |
| plover |
noun |
Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridae, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsae. They are prized as game birds., Any grallatorial bird allied to, or resembling, the true plovers, as the crab plover (Dromas ardeola); the American upland, plover (Bartramia longicauda); and other species of sandpipers. |