plow

Soil-turning implement

A plow is a farming implement that cuts and turns soil to prepare it for planting.

The verb means to use such a tool, or by extension, to push through something with similar force: The ship plowed through the waves.

To plow into something is to crash into it.

To plow ahead is to proceed despite obstacles.

Snow plows clear roads.

To plow money into something is to invest heavily.

In British English, spelled plough.

farming

tillage

Soil preparation for planting

tractor · seedbed · moldboard · planting · soil · field · acre · farm · farmer · ox

digging

furrow

Narrow trench in earth

channel · cut · earth · soil · turnover · break · scarify · cultivate · furrowing · bed

nautical

waves

Traveling energy disturbances

  • bowRespectful forward inclination
  • hullOuter covering or frame
  • keelHull's structural base

wake · surge · chop · swell · vessel · ship · sailing · cutting through · maritime · headway

labor

toil

Strenuous, prolonged effort

exertion · sweat · backbreaking · arduous · strenuous · effort · struggle · fieldwork · manual labor · hard work

clearing

salt truck

Vehicle spreading road de-icer

drift · road · highway · street · pavement · municipal · winter · ice · gravel · grader

sexual

fuck

Coarse all-purpose profanity

  • screwThreaded metal fastener
  • boneHard skeletal tissue
  • bangSudden loud noise

hump · shag · boink · bonk · romp · rut · boff · lay · mount

persist

forge

Furnace for shaping metal

persevere · trudge · slog · grind · determination · dogged · relentless · unstoppable · headlong

invest

reinvest

Return gains to capital

sink into · earnings · capital · returns · business · growth · revenue

Categories
Opposites
agricultural implement type

plowharrow

Toothed soil-breaking implement

harvester · combine · reaper · seeder · planter

work effort and persistence

plowidle

Without activity or purpose

laze · loaf · rest · relax · slack off

land treatment direction

plowfill

Make something full

fill in · smooth · level · compact · pave

Phrases
Family

plowed, plowing, plows, snowplow, ploughs, plough, ploughing, plowman, snowplowing

Familiarity
Top 20,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G