(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry.
(n.) A carucate of land; a plowland.
(n.) A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.
(n.) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
(n.) Same as Charles's Wain.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing.
(v. t.) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See Plow, n., 5.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(2) Yet out-of-touch ministers have ploughed on regardless and claimed this is a 'triumph'.
(3) He would much rather money be ploughed into renewable energy sources.
(4) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(5) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A farm worker ploughing a field in Blackwater.
(7) He said the government would also plough money into the expansion of solar heating systems.
(8) The retailer said annual profits were likely to be poorer than expected as it had ploughed millions of pounds into a multimedia advertising campaign and taken on hundreds more vans to back a new delivery service before Black Friday, which falls on 27 November this year, but could not be sure how shoppers would respond.
(9) PMQs ploughs on regardless, in part because both sides know the weekly exchanges shape backbench morale, in part because one side will always think it gains an advantage over the other at such sessions, and in part because too many MPs are afraid of radical parliamentary change.
(10) Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye, pictured right, and his friend, Themba Tshabalala, are accused of killing four schoolboys after racing two Mini Coopers in the streets of Soweto only to lose control and plough into a group of children.
(11) This month the concessions are being worked at a breakneck pace, with giant tractors and heavy machinery clearing trees, draining swamps and ploughing the land in time to catch the next growing season.
(12) The housing crisis tells you a lot about British society: springing from a pathological middle class obsession with home ownership, the spike in houses prices is seen as earned, not incidental: most people now expect to make a profit on housing, and the fact people like the Blairs plough cash in as an investment should be a warning sign.
(13) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(14) The article also reported that "since leaving No 10, Brown has received more than £2m in fees and expenses — although this has all been ploughed back into his public and charitable activities".
(15) The latter are grown in fields on which oil-based fertilisers have been sprayed and which are ploughed by tractors that burn diesel.
(16) The committee is planning to plough the money saved into CCTV cameras for the park and will try again next year to raise the money for a display.
(17) After Unprofor approval,” says Van der Wind, “the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy.” The UN petrol was used, he says, to fuel transport of men and boys to the killing fields, and bulldozers to plough the 8,000 corpses into mass graves.
(18) Half will be ploughed back into frontline public services, leaving £6bn to fund a smaller tax-take from NI than under a fourth-term Labour government.
(19) Kevyn Orr will be gone in five and a half months, and so I’m able to, I think, deliver results on the lights, deliver results on EMS response times, deliver results on the blight, getting a little bit better at the snow-ploughing, and we’re just going to keep building on that.” Other notable moments: Detroit was slammed by heavy winter storms, making it the snowiest winter on record since 1880.
(20) All the profits from sales are ploughed back into providing skills training and setting up new retail outlets.
Rafter
Definition:
(n.) A raftsman.
(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
(v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
(2) One identified a blonde woman, smiling as she sold peanuts in paper cones to the rafters, as her sister – alive and well in Cuba, she said.
(3) Especially against Nick Kyrgios Read more Nick Kyrgios has come out in defence of Bernard Tomic , accusing Pat Rafter of being negative after the Tennis Australia performance director had responded to Tomic’s spray following his third-round Wimbledon exit.
(4) Back to the big leather punchbag hanging from the rafters, and Inna admits that the training sessions will not be entirely pacifist.
(5) Christian Radnedge , a Spurs-supporting journalist who was in the Smoking Dog, told the BBC that it had been "full to the rafters" when there was "a huge cacophony of noise and the sound of glass being smashed".
(6) Depending on the water level, which varies with rainfall and snowmelt, the Green is popular with rafters and kayakers when high and with canoeists and tubers when low.
(7) Like the majority of his employees – most of whom have now begun trickling back to work – Romualdez was almost washed away by the super storm and only survived by clutching onto roof rafters as the waters rose around him.
(8) Two others, photographed in a truck, helped the rafters but didn’t join them.
(9) It is proposed that continuous low-dose exposure to aerosolized, biologically active rafter dust could contribute to the respiratory insult of grain workers.
(10) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
(11) "Africans who refused to take the Mau Mau oath have had ropes tied around their necks and been strung up from rafters until unconscious.
(12) Nick Kyrgios bounces racket into crowd during tantrum at Wimbledon Read more The 22-year-old demanded an investigation into TA’s conduct after Rafter used Tomic’s father and coach John’s “intolerable” behaviour as the chief reason for no longer funding the family.
(13) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(14) On Friday, the red benches of the House of Lords , which sometimes serve as a quiet spot for a post-prandial nap, will be a hive of activity, packed to the gilded rafters with lords and ladies.
(15) Long-chain diglycerides (LCDGs) found in the human colon are mitogens selective for colon tumor cells, inducing mitogenesis in premalignant cells from each of 13 adenomas and in malignant cells from two of four carcinomas, but having no mitogenic effects on normal colonocytes (E. Friedman, P. Isaksson, J. Rafter, B. Marian, S. Winawer, and H. Newmark, Cancer Res., 49:544-548, 1989).
(16) Had the Elysée's salles des fêtes been packed to the ornate rafters and chandeliers with French media, the sleight of hand might have worked.
(17) Hitting back in sensational fashion after Pat Rafter vowed to stop the governing body’s funding to the Tomic family, including his younger sister Sara, Tomic described Australia’s director of performance as a “mask” for TA boss Craig Tiley.
(18) The painting, which measures 144cm x 175cm (56in x 69in) was found in April 2014, in the rafters of a house on the outskirts of Toulouse.
(19) Fungi did not grow in inside feed hoppers or in dust on rafters in the broiler houses.
(20) The lonely building on this remote Pacific island now contains only a punchbag that someone has strung from the classroom rafters, and a note scrawled on the chalkboard in Niuean: “Keep this place clean so it stays beautiful.” While much of the world worries about how it will accommodate rapidly growing populations, some islands in the Pacific face the opposite dilemma: how to stop everybody from leaving.