plow

an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.

any of various implements resembling or suggesting this, as a kind of plane for cutting grooves or a contrivance for clearing away snow from a road or track.

Type Founding.��(formerly) an instrument for cutting the groove in the foot of type.

Bookbinding.��a device for trimming the edges of the leaves by hand.

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1. the constellation Ursa Major.

2. the Big Dipper.

to turn up (soil) with a plow.

to make (a furrow) with a plow.

to tear up, cut into, or make a furrow, groove, etc. in (a surface) with or as if with a plow (often followed byup ).

to clear by the use of a plow, especially a snowplow (sometimes followed byout ).

to invest, as capital (often followed byinto ).

to reinvest or reutilize (usually followed byback ).

(of a ship, boat, animal, etc.)

1. to cleave the surface of (the water).

   beavers plowing the pond.

2. to make (a way) or follow (a course) in this manner.

   The yacht plowed an easterly course through the choppy Atlantic.

Slang: Vulgar.��to have sexual intercourse with.

to till the soil or work with a plow.

to take plowing in a specified way.

to move forcefully through something in the manner of a plow (often followed by through, into, along, etc.).

to proceed in a slow, laborious, and steady manner (often followed bythrough ).

to move through water by cleaving the surface.