What is "ploughed back"

Usage examples of "ploughed back".

We must run to them when they got ashore - I ploughed back through the fronds, staring at the hill behind, to see how our Hova friends were doing - and there they were, dropping down from the crest beind us, making for the landward side of the fort.

Beyond the fish ponds, in the two pease fields that ran down the slope to the Meole Brook, the western boundary of the enclave, the haulms had long since been cut close and dried for stable bedding, and the roots ploughed back into the soil, but there would be a heavy and dirty job there spreading much of the ripened and tempered manure from the stable yard and the byres.

There were, it was true, numerous craters - but most of them seemed to have been, quite literally, ploughed back into the ground.

The cock ploughed back into her, driving itself into her sex in one relentless motion.

Government grants and whatever money's left over from my grandfather's share options will be ploughed back into the house to open it up, let the light in, convert it into a suitable place of care.

A similar system applied to trade with Cadwal and Alend-which needed the resources of Mordant too badly to refuse to barter with King Joyse-and those profits were likewise ploughed back into the soil and society of Mordant.

Parkes almost had to take him by the throat to get it in writing, and then we ploughed back to the boat in the dark, past the huge gloomy fort-buildings, with slow-fuse mines which the Chinks had thoughtfully left behind exploding here and there.