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Plowing   /plˈaʊɪŋ/   Listen
Plowing

noun
1.
Tilling the land with a plow.  Synonym: ploughing.



Plow

verb
(past & past part. plowed or ploughed; pres. part. plowing or ploughing)
1.
To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.  Synonyms: plough, turn.  "Turn the earth in the Spring"
2.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
3.
Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil.  Synonym: plough.



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"Plowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... in 1863, and was now in old age deprived of his negroes and much of his land and money. His father, weighed down with sorrow, had to take up the practice of law from the start. Some members of his family, "who used to roll in wealth, are every day," he writes, "with their own hands plowing the little patch of ground which the war has left them, while their wives do ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

... the plowing and the planting and the hoeing. Everybody was busy from daylight to dark. There were so many trees and stumps that there was but little room for ...
— Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln - A Book for Young Americans • James Baldwin

... barrainest land in such sort that it will beare Corne seauen yeeres together. This blacke clay as it is the best soyle, well Husbanded, so it is of all soyles the worst if it be ill Husbanded: for if it loose but one ardor, or seasenable Plowing, it will not be recouered in foure yeeres after, but will naturally of it selfe put forth wilde Oates, Thistels, and all manner of offensiue weedes, as Cockle, Darnell, and such like: his labour is strong, heauy, and sore, vnto the cattell that tilleth it, ...
— The English Husbandman • Gervase Markham

... picked out a bridle and started off whistling Buffalo Gals—he was a powerful pretty whistler and could do the Mocking Bird with variations—to catch the mule and begin his plowing. The animal was feeding as peaceful as a water-color picture, and she didn't budge; but when Jeff began to get nearer, her ears dropped back along her neck as if they had lead in them. He knew that symptom and so he closed up kind of cautious, ...
— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... his hat, scratched his head and thought a minute. Then he climbed the fence at the side of the road and waved to a farmer he saw plowing in a field half a mile away. After many attempts he succeeded in attracting the farmer's attention, and he left his horses and came toward us. When he was within speaking distance, Mr. Noland called out, 'Mornin', Hiram! I am sorry to bother you, but I am in trouble. ...
— Billy Whiskers' Adventures • Frances Trego Montgomery


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