Plow Definition–noun | 1. | an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil. | | 2. | any of various implements resembling or suggesting this, as a kind of plane for cutting grooves or a contrivance for clearing away snow from a road or track. | | 3. | Type Founding. (formerly) an instrument for cutting the groove in the foot of type. | | 4. | Bookbinding. a device for trimming the edges of the leaves by hand. | | 5. | (initial capital letter ) Astronomy. | a. | the constellation Ursa Major. | | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to turn up (soil) with a plow. | | 7. | to make (a furrow) with a plow. | | 8. | to tear up, cut into, or make a furrow, groove, etc. in (a surface) with or as if with a plow (often fol. by up): The tractor plowed up an acre of trees. | | 9. | to clear by the use of a plow, esp. a snowplow (sometimes fol. by out): The city's work crews were busily plowing the streets after the blizzard. | | 10. | to invest, as capital (often fol. by into): to plow several hundred million into developing new oil fields. <
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