plow

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A farm implement consisting of a strong blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing.
• noun An implement or machine designed to move earth, snow, or other material by means of a strong blade.
• intransitive verb To break and turn over (earth) with a plow.
• intransitive verb To form (a furrow, for example) with a plow.
• intransitive verb To form furrows in with a plow.
• intransitive verb To form wrinkles or creases in.
• intransitive verb To move or clear (snow, for example) by means of a plow.
• intransitive verb To clear (an area) of snow or other material by means of a plow.
• intransitive verb To make or form with driving force.
• intransitive verb To progress through (water).
• intransitive verb Vulgar Slang To have intercourse with (another). Used of a man.
• intransitive verb To break and turn up earth with a plow.
• intransitive verb To move or clear material such as snow with a plow.
• intransitive verb To admit of plowing.
• intransitive verb To move or progress with driving force.
• intransitive verb To proceed laboriously; plod.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• 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.
• noun 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.
• noun Figuratively, tillage; culture of the earth; agriculture.
• noun A tool that furrows, grooves, planes, cuts, or otherwise acts by pushing or shoving, like a plow, , , ,
• noun A plowland.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.)
• noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb 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.
• noun 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
• noun Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
• noun obsolete, engraving A carucate of land; a plowland.
• noun A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
• noun (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
• noun (Astron.) Same as Charles's Wain.
• noun [U. S.] a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc.