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The brightest seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major. They are Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Dubhe, Merak, and Phecda.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, common, name
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Big Dipper, Charles' Wain, Drinking Gourd, Northern Ladle, Northern Waggoner, Wain, triones, septentriones
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
Synonyms: sull
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: implement
noun
Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
Ellipsis of snowplough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several other tools or implements that cut and push material.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The use of a plough; tillage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Synonyms: carucate
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: yoga
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verb
To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To use a plough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To move with force.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
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verb
To knock over or run over (someone) without stopping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To run through, as in sailing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, bookbinding, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To fail (a student).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete, transitive
Qualifier: university slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: flunk, pluck, spin
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To sexually penetrate, typically in a vigorous manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive, vulgar
Synonyms: get up in, pound, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: plow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tool
Narrower terms: bull tongue, moldboard plow, mouldboard plough
noun
a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Big Dipper, Dipper, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: asterism
verb
to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plow, turn
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: till
Narrower terms: ridge, harrow, disk
verb
move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
History
From plough, a metonymic occupational surname for a plowwright or plowman.
From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.
Across languages
385 source translations are retained for this English entry.
