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Yes. The word plough is a Scrabble US word. The word plough is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

PLOUGH,

5-letter words (3 found)

GHOUL,GULPH,LOUGH,

4-letter words (9 found)

GLOP,GOLP,GULP,HOLP,LOUP,OUPH,PLUG,PUGH,UPGO,

3-letter words (20 found)

GUL,GUP,HOG,HOP,HUG,HUP,LOG,LOP,LOU,LUG,OUP,PHO,PLU,POH,POL,PUG,PUH,PUL,UGH,UPO,

2-letter words (11 found)

GO,GU,HO,LO,OH,OP,OU,PO,UG,UH,UP,

You can make 44 words from plough according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of plough

plough

Alternative forms

  • plow (US)

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaʊ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

  1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
    Synonym: sull
    Hyponyms: ard, light plough, scratch plough, carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough
  2. The use of a plough; tillage.
  3. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
  4. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
    Synonym: carucate
    • c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn
      Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.
  5. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
  6. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
  7. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.

Usage notes

The spelling plow is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Fiji Hindi: falaawaa

Translations

Verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

  1. (transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
  2. (intransitive) To use a plough.
  3. To move with force.
  4. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
    Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut
  5. (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
  6. (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
  7. (joinery) 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.
  8. (UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
    Synonyms: flunk, pluck
  9. (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
    Synonyms: get up in, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

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Middle English

Alternative forms

  • ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch
  • plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern)

Etymology

From Old English plōh, from Proto-West Germanic *plōg, from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pluːx/

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

  1. plow

Descendants

  • English: plough, plow (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: pleuch, plou
  • Yola: pleough, plowe, plou

References

  • “plǒugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org