- (v.t.) To trim or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
- (v.t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
- (n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
- (n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- (n.&v.) See Plow.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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