plowing
Breaking ground up
Plowing is turning and breaking up soil to prepare it for planting.
A plow cuts into the earth, lifting and inverting it to bury weeds and aerate the ground.
The word extends to any forceful forward movement: The truck plowed through the snowdrift, She plowed through her reading list.
To plow into something is to collide with it.
In vulgar slang, plowing refers to vigorous sex.
Extremely distressing or disturbing
- diskingCultivating with bladed implement
- chiselEdged carving implement
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
- rototillingMechanical soil cultivation
furrow · seedbed · no-till · scarifying · spading · turning · aeration · cultivation
Agricultural pulling vehicle
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- harrowToothed soil-breaking implement
Soil or electrical grounding
- loamFertile soil mixture
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- siltWaterborne earth particles
- topsoilNutrient-rich surface earth
subsoil · humus · furrow · turning · aeration · turf · clod · compaction
harrowing
Extremely distressing or disturbing
- diskingCultivating with bladed implement
- chiselEdged carving implement
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
rototilling · furrow · seedbed · no-till · scarifying · spading · turning · aeration · cultivation · groundbreaking
tractor
Agricultural pulling vehicle
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
harrow · disk · cultivator · ripper · furrower · hitch · landside
earth
Soil or electrical grounding
topsoil · subsoil · humus · furrow · turning · aeration · turf · clod · compaction · drainage
fieldwork
Research conducted on location
planting · irrigation · harvest · husbandry · acreage · homestead · agronomy · seasonal · agricultural · subsistence
pushing
Applying force to move
- barrelingMoving recklessly fast
- chargingRestoring electrical power
- bulldozingDemolishing by pushing over
forging · driving · surging · crashing · ramming · smashing · powering · muscling · shoving · forcing
- farm choresmilking cows, milking, egg gathering, mucking stalls, hay baling
- Old Farmingharvesting, sowing, threshing, winnowing, fallowing
- medieval economyfiefs, manors, serfs, vassals, lords
- farm heritagefarmstead, barns, farm tools, farmhouses, barn dance
- peasant farmingpeasants, peasantry, rice farming, rice paddies, rice paddy
- planting preptillage, cultivation, harrowing, fertilizing, furrows
plowingfallowing
Leaving cropland unplanted
no-till · conservation tillage · resting · neglecting · abandoning
- plowing throughPushing forward relentlessly
- plowing aheadAdvancing without hesitation
- snow plowingRemoving winter accumulation from roads
- plowing intoColliding forcefully with
- plowing onPersevering through difficulty
- plowing backReturning profits to source