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121Plough Alley — In Sherborne Lane (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps …
122Plough Yard — 1) On Little Tower Hill, at the Ditch side (P.C. 1732 Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) North out of Holborn Hill, with a passage east to Field Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, near the Bridge (O. and M. 1677 Strype, 1755).… …
123Plough Yard, Bevis Marks — South out of Bevis Marks. In Aldgate Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755). Plow Yard (O. and M. 1677). Now forms an entrance and Court to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue …
124Plough-Share City — York, Pennsylvania …
125plough back — PHRASAL VERB: usu passive If profits are ploughed back into a business, they are used to increase the size of the business or to improve it. [be V ed P into n] About 70 per cent of its profits are being ploughed back into the investment programme …
126plough into — 1) PHRASAL VERB If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it. [V P n] A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing. 2)… …
127plough under — American needlessly to cause the death of The way a farmer disposes of an unwanted crop. Wendell Willkie, opposing Roosevelt s third term as President, appealed to isolationists and pacifists in the electorate by accusing Roosevelt of… …
128Plough Team — ♦ Often assessed at eight oxen per team; in the richest agricultural areas, like the Severn valley, there were between three and five per square mile. On harsher land like the fringes of Dartmoor, a smallholder might own only one or two oxen.… …
