plough
31plough on — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms plough on : present tense I/you/we/they plough on he/she/it ploughs on present participle ploughing on past tense ploughed on past participle ploughed on to continue doing something that takes a lot of… …
32plough — [OE] Plough was not the original English word for an ‘implement for turning over the soil’. That was Old English sulh, a relative of Latin sulcus ‘furrow’. Plough was borrowed in the 10th century from Old Norse plógr, a descendant of prehistoric… …
33plough — or[plow through] {v. phr.} Pass through laboriously. * /Saw had to plough through hundreds of pages of American history to get ready for his test./ …
34plough — or[plow through] {v. phr.} Pass through laboriously. * /Saw had to plough through hundreds of pages of American history to get ready for his test./ …
35plough on — verb To continue with a task despite it being menial, difficult, or boring We could stop for a coffee, or plough on to the hotel …
36Plough — First referred to in Gen. 45:6, where the Authorized Version has earing, but the Revised Version ploughing; next in Ex. 34:21 and Deut. 21:4. The plough was originally drawn by oxen, but sometimes also by asses and by men. (See Agriculture.) …
37plough — plow, plough (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. cultivate, dig, till, turn, break, furrow. See agriculture …
38plough — plaÊŠ n. (British spelling for plow) farming tool used for cutting into the ground v. (British spelling for plow) cut into the soil with a plough; advance through great effort; pave the way; fail, not succeed …
39plough — 1. (of a male) to copulate with It puns on the entry of the share into the furrow and the chance of issue: He plough d and she crop d. (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra) 2. to fail a candidate in an examination Of uncertain… …
40plough on — advance or progress laboriously or forcibly. → plough …
