PLOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plowing mean? 

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

1. tilling the land with a plow

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOWING (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 ("plowing" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

This may be due to the motion of the host star plowing through the interstellar medium, like the bow wave from a boat crossing a lake.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

The researchers noted the sevengill sharks might not have the same effect on the ecosystems involved as the great whites have had, citing the ecological disruption apparently caused off Alaska when a change in orca behavior had a knock-on effect, disrupting sea otters' predation of sea urchins, whose population then exploded, plowing through the area's kelp forests.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)