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A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil.
In agriculture, a plowshare or ploughshare (UK; / ˈ p l aʊ ʃ ɛər /) is a component of a plow (or plough). It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard which closely follows the coulter (one or more ground-breaking spikes) when plowing.
A mine plow (plough in British English) is a device designed to clear a lane through a minefield, allowing other vehicles to follow. A mine plow is typically mounted to a tank or military engineering vehicle. Buried land mines are plowed up and pushed outside the tank's track path or tipped over.
The ard, ard plough, [1] or scratch plough [2] is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with ...
Generals Marshall and Eisenhower had already discussed PLOUGH with the British high command and were unwilling to give up a chance to open an American front in Europe. It was believed that PLOUGH offered the possibility of defeating the Germans, and the Americans wanted Allied efforts to shift to the Pacific Theater.
Plough Monday, from George Walker's The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814. Plough Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year. It is the first Monday after Epiphany, 6 January. [1] [2] References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century. [2]
The Plough, or the Big Dipper, an asterism in the constellation of Ursa Major; Plough (instrument), a type of backstaff, a device used for celestial navigation; Plough (unit), or carucate, a medieval unit of land area; Plough, a device on electric trams powered by conduit current collection
The Starry Plough, a flag associated with revolutionary Irish republicanism and socialism, features a sword as the plowshare. Twelve-term US Congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul wrote a book entitled Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity , in which he discusses growing up during ...