Vocabulary : Plotting to Ploughgate
Plotting : of PlotPlough : See Plow. ;; 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. ;; Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. ;; A carucate of land; a plowland. ;; A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane. ;; An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. ;; Same as Charles's Wain. ;; 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. ;; To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. ;; To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5. ;; 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. ;; To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the so
Ploughable : Capable of being plowed; arable.
Ploughbote : Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.
Ploughboy : A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
