Plow

(noun.) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing.

(verb.) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; 'Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week'; 'turn the earth in the Spring'.

(verb.) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil; 'The ship plowed through the water'.

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• They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There is not a modern plow in the islands or a threshing machine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They plow with a plow that is a sharp, curved blade of iron, and it cuts into the earth full five inches. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We plowed along bravely for a week or more, and without any conflict of jurisdiction among the captains worth mentioning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If he plowed twenty miles a day, it would take 5,280 days. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A child sees persons with whom he lives using chairs, hats, tables, spades, saws, plows, horses, money in certain ways. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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