Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
plough . - adjective Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
- adjective figuratively, rare Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
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- adjective (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow
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Examples
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Five plays later — all runs — and Baltimore was ahead 14-0 after McClain ploughed in from the 1 and Billy Cundiff tacked on the extra point.
Statement win: Could beating Patriots fuel deep Ravens run? 2010
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It is a northern animal, nocturnal, and rarely seen, but not uncommon; they are frequently found in ploughed grasslands.
Rural Hours 1887
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The forvalaka ploughed into Gota, tipping the table on which she had been laid out.
Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000
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I had stopped to listen, propped against a tree for only a few minutes, when a Kokako appeared walking along a log which protruded from a thick patch of fern beside a patch of "ploughed" ground.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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The following year (April 1967), I was within 400 metres of the previous sighting, and close to a patch of "ploughed" ground which I had seen on my way up the valley about six days before.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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When this is dry put a slip of 0.5 in. or 0.75 in. gilt moulding (procured at the picture frame maker's) all around the front of the case on top of the prepared glass, and just within the edges of the wood "ploughed" out to receive it, nicely mitring the comers with a mitre and shooting block.
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Exactly in the centre a groove is "ploughed" to the depth of
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Most of these gentlemen were "ploughed" in their examination, but the hero of this sketch secured his degree without honours, and departed to read for the Church.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various
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Each upright is "ploughed" alike; they are then glued and nailed to the top and bottom by brads running through; the rounded edges falling outside.
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Thus I can remember one resident accoucheur being "ploughed," as we called it, in his special subject, obstetrics -- and men to whom you wouldn't trust your cat getting through with flying colours.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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