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Plowed   /plaʊd/   Listen
Plowed

adjective
1.
(of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow.  Synonym: ploughed.  Antonym: unplowed.



Plow

verb
(past & past part. plowed or ploughed; pres. part. plowing or ploughing)
1.
To break and turn over earth especially with a plow.  Synonyms: plough, turn.  "Turn the earth in the Spring"
2.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.  Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat.  "The course covered all of Western Civilization" , "The new book treats the history of China"
3.
Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil.  Synonym: plough.



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"Plowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... he stumbled off, plowed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterward ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson

... came out upon the roads that they were to traverse in common and the result was inextricable confusion. Cavalry and artillery were constantly cutting in among the infantry and bringing them to a halt; whole brigades were compelled to leave the road and stand at ordered arms in the plowed fields for more than an hour, waiting until the way should be cleared. And to make matters worse, they had hardly left the camp when a terrible storm broke over them, the rain pelting down in torrents, drenching the men completely and adding ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... and this has been canalized, diked, drained and converted into the most productive of fields, bearing three or more crops each year. As we passed westward through this delta region the broad flat fields, surrounded by dikes to protect them against high water, were being plowed and fitted for the coming crop of rice. In many places the dikes which checked off the fields were planted with bananas and in the distance gave the appearance of extensive orchards completely occupying the ground. Except ...
— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

... or two with the plow. The native shook his head doubtfully as he looked at his visitor's store clothes and general air of gentleman of elegant leisure, but he let him take the plow. The Congressman sailed away with it in fine style, and plowed four or five furrows before the owner of the field could recover his surprise. Then he pulled up and handed the handles ...
— Toasts - and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say - the Right Thing in the Right Way • William Pittenger

... in one of my fields, where a strip containing an acre had been two years in onions, and a little piece jutting off from the middle of this had been prepared for them just one season. The rest had not received any extra manuring or cultivation. When the field was plowed up in the fall, all three sections were as distinctly noticeable as though separated by a fence. And I know that next spring's crop of rye, before it is plowed under, will show the lines ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell


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