PLOUGHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ploughing mean? 

• PLOUGHING (noun)
  The noun PLOUGHING has 1 sense:

1. tilling the land with a plow

  Familiarity information: PLOUGHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOUGHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tilling the land with a plow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ploughing; plowing

Context example:

he hired someone to do the plowing for him

Hypernyms ("ploughing" is a kind of...):

tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)

Derivation:

plough (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow)

 Context examples 

The sled itself was without runners, being a birch-bark toboggan, with upturned forward end to keep it from ploughing under the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In another apartment I was highly pleased with a projector who had found a device of ploughing the ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, cattle, and labour.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed—I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)