Plough
The plough (BrE) or plow (AmE; see spelling differences; /ˈplaʊ/) is a tool (or machine) used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture.
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Some articles on plough:
... The stump-jump plough is a kind of plough invented in South Australia in the late 19th century by Richard Bowyer Smith to solve the particular problem of preparing ...
... Ploughing leaves very little crop residue on the surface, which otherwise could reduce both wind and water erosion ... Over-ploughing can lead to the formation of hardpan ...
... Smith created the first stump-jump plough, entitled the Vixen, in 1876 ... The plough consisted of any number of hinged shares when the blade encountered an underground obstacle, it would rise out of the ground ... it proved remarkably effective, and was dubbed the "stump-jump" plough ...
... The War Lords (1915) Pebbles on the Shore (writing as "Alpha of the Plough") (1916) Windfalls (as "Alpha of the Plough") (1920) Leaves in the Wind (as "Alpha of ...
... In the book Church, Manor, Plough - Volume 1 of the History of South Warnborough written by John Simpson in 1946, he details a statement made on 28 September ...
More definitions of "plough":
- (noun): A farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing.
Synonyms: plow
- (verb): Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil.
Synonyms: plow
Famous quotes containing the word plough:
“And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”
—Kate Richards O’Hare (1877–1948)
“We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;—
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)