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- English Word Plotful Definition Abounding with plots.
- English Word Plotinist Definition A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.
- English Word Plotted Definition of Plot
- English Word Plotter Definition One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.
- English Word Plotting Definition of Plot
- English Word Plough Definition See Plow.
- English Word Plough Definition A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
- English Word Plough Definition Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
- English Word Plough Definition A carucate of land; a plowland.
- English Word Plough Definition A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
- English Word Plough Definition An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- English Word Plough Definition Same as Charles's Wain.
- English Word Plough Definition 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.
- English Word Plough Definition To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
- English Word Plough Definition To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
- English Word Plough Definition 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.
- English Word Plough Definition To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything.
- English Word Ploughable Definition Capable of being plowed; arable.
- English Word Ploughbote Definition Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.
- English Word Ploughboy Definition A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
- English Word Ploughed Definition of Plough
- English Word Plougher Definition One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.
- English Word Ploughfoot Definition An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow.
- English Word Ploughgang Definition Same as Plowgate.
- English Word Ploughgate Definition The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.
- English Word Ploughhead Definition The clevis or draught iron of a plow.
- English Word Ploughing Definition of Plough
- English Word Ploughman Definition One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.
- English Word Ploughman Definition A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
- English Word Ploughpoint Definition A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.