(n.) An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Lean forward," shouts Barnie, as I tentatively point my skis, in a slight snowplough, down the Ariondaz piste.
(2) Some 40 customers trapped overnight in England's highest pub, the Tan Hill inn on the county Durham border with North Yorkshire, were in good spirits as snowploughs and police in 4x4s worked to clear a way out.
(3) He said: "A fleet of special engineering trains, including snowploughs and de-icers, are running continuously.
(4) Snowploughs and chainsaw gangs were deployed to try to clear the network of snow and fallen trees, Network Rail Scotland tweeted .
(5) She trusted Davie to snowplough the avalanche of her copy into clarity, and they often worked together on contributions by others.
(6) Shovels and snowploughs were used to clear snow from the lines and a not easily visible yellow-and-purple ball was used.
(7) The infrastructure is a joke – witness the lack of snowploughs to keep Heathrow open during last winter's snow.
(8) In the very north of Sweden, that doesn't work, so they get out the snowploughs instead."
(9) Snow tyres, chains and studs are snapped up, some streets are declared no-parking zones because they lie on snowplough routes, giant snow melters are fired up for the winter, and caravans of snowploughs are dispatched to runways and highways.
(10) "But with the first snowfall in October or November, we have to learn to drive all over again — and the snowplough drivers have to learn their new routes."
(11) Snowploughs and gritters were out in some areas of Scotland early on Friday to keep roads open.
(12) External contractors with snowploughs had cleared its car parks.
(13) Network Rail Scot (@NetworkRailSCOT) #snow out snowplough trains were out over night!
(14) He said the most "dramatic" situation was near Sijenica, in Serbia's south-west, where it has been freezing cold or snowing for 26 days and diesel fuel supplies used by snowploughs are running low.
(15) The match in March last year took place in a blizzard, the pitch was covered in several inches of snow, and snowploughs and shovels were needed to clear the lines.
(16) Heavy snowfall blocked the railway line in the Highlands between Blair Atholl and Drumochter as snowplough trains worked through the night to keep the rail network open.
(17) A snowplough obscures the moment when Nemtsov is shot.
(18) The source said: "Gordon can be so earnest he comes across as a mix between a snowplough and a combine harvester.