| VERB | motion | plough, plow | move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil |
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| creation | plough, plow, turn | to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | |
| NOUN | object | Plough, Big Dipper, Dipper, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon | a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major |
| artifact | plough, plow | a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing |
| Sounds | plaw'; plow' | |
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| Rhymes | allow ... snowplow: 8 rhymes with law... | |
| afterglow ... yellow: 77 rhymes with low... | ||
| Meaning | A group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major. | |
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| Synonyms | Big Dipper, Dipper, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon | |
| Instance of | asterism | (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) |
| Part of | Great Bear, Ursa Major | A constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
| Spanish | arado, Ursa Major | |
| Catalan | UMa, Ursa Major | |
| Meaning | A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing. | |
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| Synonym | plow | |
| Narrower | bull tongue | A heavy plow with a single wide blade |
| moldboard plow, mouldboard plough | plow that has a moldboard | |
| Broader | tool | An implement used in the practice of a vocation |
| Spanish | arada, arado, arar | |
| Catalan | arada | |
| Verbs | plough | to break and turn over earth especially with a plow |
| Meaning | Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil. | |
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| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonym | plow | |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
| Spanish | surcar | |
| Meaning | To break and turn over earth especially with a plow. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | plow, turn | |
| Category | farming, agriculture, husbandry | The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock |
| Entails | dig, delve, cut into, turn over | Turn up, loosen, or remove earth |
| Narrower | harrow, disk | Draw a harrow over (land) |
| ridge | plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | |
| Broader | till | Work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation |
| Spanish | arar, labrar, surcar | |
| Catalan | llaurar, solcar | |
| Nouns | plough | a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing |
| ploughing | tilling the land with a plow | |
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