Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of turning up earth with a plow; the cultivation of the ground by the plow: as, the plowing of new ground; the spring and fall plotting.
- noun The making of furrows or grooves in anything. See
plow , v.
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- verb snowboarding : riding with neither foot leading, with the
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ploughing - noun Alternative form of
ploughing .
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- noun tilling the land with a plow
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Examples
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As a bona fide member of the Baby Boomers, I revelled in plowing new territory in terms of parenting, working, sistering and changing the world.
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Billy worked for three days, and while insisting that he was doing very well, he freely admitted that there was more in plowing than he had thought.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
August 8th, 2007 2007
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Billy worked for three days, and while insisting that he was doing very well, he freely admitted that there was more in plowing than he had thought.
Chapter 4 1913
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They would hurry away from their meagre garden plots and stony fields, to begin plowing and sowing.
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You can call it plowing new ground, but I think the more salient point is that courts haven’t considered this particular question previously, and a ruling that compulsory purchases goes too far when imposed on commercially inactive individuals, wouldn’t conflict with any previous decision.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drawing Lines in the Commerce Clause Debate on Health Care Reform 2010
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"We're always open to listening, but ... we're more in sync with the idea of plowing forward," said Jon James, deputy superintendent of the Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway division.
Jones Point Park makeover will keep people out for 2 years 2010
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UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recalls plowing through the complete Sherlock Holmes collection on his first NBA road trip.
The NBA's Locker-Room Nerds Hannah Karp 2010
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After 20+ years, I still shudder when I recall plowing through the 1400 typewritten pages unbound of course of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, taking copious notes.
Synopsis Flopsis Miss Snark 2005
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The pulverization of drained land may be produced, partly by deep, or subsoil plowing, which is always necessary to perfect the object of thorough-draining; but it is much aided, in stiff clays, also, by the shrinkage of the soil by drying.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
GHibbs commented on the word plowing
Also, present participle of the verb 'to plow (to plough)'.
September 15, 2011
rolig commented on the word plowing
Mr/s Hibbs, may I ask what it is you are doing? Is it your intention to make a special note of every inflected form of every English word on Wordnik? I'm trying to imagine how such an undertaking might be helpful. If you are learning English or trying to assist learners of English, I would advise you to get hold of a good English grammar book, such as A Student's Introduction to English Grammar by Huddleston and Pullum.
September 15, 2011