Crossword clues for ploughed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plowed (ploud) or Ploughed; p. pr. & vb. n. Plowing or Ploughing.]
To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field.
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To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails.
--Shak.With speed we plow the watery way.
--Pope. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
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(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.
To plow in, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat.
To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.
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Usage examples of "ploughed".
The boat was making hideous crunching sounds as it ploughed into the frill of vegetation along the bank.
The agricultural teams had ploughed during their absence, and sowed the fields with seed purloined from the now deserted Bella Vista camp in a special trip of the KDL.
Teddy thrust off powerfully from the bank and ploughed across the pond.
Amos flew backwards two meters and ploughed into the deck at an awkward angle.
Thian blamed himself for not checking on a clear corridor but no-one was hurt and the 'Dini, seeing Mur in the tub, ploughed forward to its patient.
The Squadron would have had a very warm welcome had it ploughed right in there as some would have liked.
They all 'ported safely away as the sled ploughed its nose into the hillside.
Now the new crop which had been ploughed on Botany, as someone had remarked in a biblical fashion - were reaching tem.
Contact was lost twenty-five seconds after it ploughed into the cloud.
She ploughed on: “I swear to you here and now, Titreano and I will make sure you get on the plane.
The fields were mostly ploughed, ready for the second cereal crop, difficult to walk on.
Their mechanoids had ploughed the ground up around each building, installing water and sewage pipes, power lines, and datalinks.
Their fields had all been ploughed now, and the tractors were out drilling the second crop.
Objects around them were perfectly clear, the dendritic tangle of roots flaring from fallen trees, a pulverised four-wheel-drive rover almost devoured by the blue-grey mud, even the shape of large stones ploughed up and rolled along by thick runnels of sludge.
Then she was ducking down as multiple explosions ploughed up the street.