Overview of noun plough

The noun plough has 2 senses

• Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon -- (a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major)


• plow, plough -- (a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing)

Overview of verb plough

The verb plough has 2 senses

• plow, plough -- (move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; "The ship plowed through the water")


• plow, plough, turn -- (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring")