Mow vs Plough - What's the difference?
mow | plough |
To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:
*:Those that paint them dyingdelineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
* Shakespeare
To make grimaces, mock.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
* Tyndale
A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
An alternative name for Ursa Major or the Great Bear.
A carucate of land; a ploughland.
* Tale of Gamelyn
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
To use a plough.
(vulgar) To have sex with.
To move with force.
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To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
As a verb mow
is .As a proper noun plough is
(constellation|british) the common name for the brightest seven stars of the constellation ursa major.mow
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) mowen (participle mowen), from (etyl) )Verb
- He mowed the lawn .
Derived terms
* mow downEtymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Make mows at him.
Verb
(en verb)- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing .
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 4
See also
*Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologiesplough
English
(wikipedia plough)Alternative forms
* (US) plowNoun
(en noun)- The horse-drawn plough had a tremendous impact on agriculture.
- Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
Usage notes
The spelling (m) is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.Derived terms
* moldboard plow * ploughman * ploughshare * snowplough * sodbuster ploughVerb
(en verb)- I've still got to plough that field.
- Some days I have to plough from sunrise to sunset.
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- Let patient Octavia plough thy visage up / With her prepared nails.
- With speed we plough the watery way.