n. An agri cultural implement, drawn by animals or moved by steam-power, used to cut the ground and turn it up so as to prepare it for the reception of seeds.n. Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture.n. A tool that furrows, grooves, planes, cuts, or otherwise acts by pushing or shoving, like a plow, , , , n. A plowland.n. A plow which can be adjusted to turn a furrow either to the right or to the left. Also called drillplow, reversible plow, and turningmold-board plow.n. A plow having a wheel in the space between the land-side and the mold-board, reducing the friction of the plow by bearing the weight. E. H. Knight. (See also balance-plow, ice-plow, prairie-plow, snow-plow, sodplow.)To turn up with a plow; till.To make furrows, grooves, or ridges in, as with a plow; furrow; figuratively, to move through like a plow; make one's way through.To effect as with a plow; traverse like a plow.To trim or square, as the edges of paper, with a plow. See plow, n., 3 .To cut or gash (a fish) with the plow or rimmer.To reject, as a candidate in an examination; pluck.To turn up the soil with a plow; till the soil with a plow.n. n. An arm and wooden mold-board, shod with leather, two of which in a gunpowder-incorporating mill serve to draw the mixture of niter, sulphur, and charcoal into the track of the heavy edge-runners.In carpentry, to groove the edge of (a board) in tonguing and grooving.To turn over (grain) in malting, so as to expose fresh surfaces to the air and equalize temperature.