Read full poem →He found a weary fox and beat him out.
The ploughman laughed and would have ploughed him in
But the old shepherd took him for the skin.
Dictionary Entry
To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
In a Sentence
“I've still got to plough that field.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
field ploughedfields ploughedland ploughedback ploughed
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “ploughed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Trees, rudely hollowed, did the waves sustain,
Ere ships in triumph ploughed the watery plain.
Then land-marks limited to each his right;
Read full poem →The royal husbandman appeared,
And ploughed, and sowed, and tilled;
The thorns he rooted out, the rubbish cleared,
Read full poem →Guided by faith and matchless fortitude,
To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed,
And on the neck of crowned Fortune proud 5
Read full poem →Which the nine Muses hold in empery,
And ploughed free furrows through the wave and foam,
Nor spread reluctant sail for more safe home
Read full poem →Here once the Deluge ploughed,
Laid the terraces, one by one;
Read full poem →Off from the house as far as we could keep
And from barn smells you can't wash out of ploughed ground
With all the rain and snow of seven years;
Read full poem →He dragged it through the ploughed ground at a pace
But faintly reminiscent of the race
Read full poem →We proclaim to the broken-hearted, still able to labor, the
glories of the ploughed land. The harvests are wonderful. And
there is a spiritual harvest appearing. A great agricultural