Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ploughed
IPA transcription: [pl'aʊd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: plowed, ploughed
    Meaning: (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow; "plowed fields"
Usage examples
  • The walls were continually being smashed from without and patched up from within. The streets were ploughed from end to end.
  • Strange manifestations of nature were reported from the interior, where the ground was opened in many places like a ploughed field.
  • The king opened the agricultural season by a great celebration, and, like the kings of Egypt, he put his hand to the plough, and ploughed the first furrow.
  • "I don't think it important; it does not take hold of me, I can't help it," answered Levin, making out that what he saw was the bailiff, and that the bailiff seemed to be letting the peasants go off the ploughed land.
  • Well, when the man reached home, who had got the six hundred dollars and the cart-load of clothes and money, he saw that all his fields were ploughed and sown, and the first thing he asked his wife was, where she had got the seed-corn from.
  • Setting a course for Hispaniola, since they judged that thither must Rivarol go to refit before attempting to cross to France, the Arabella and the Elizabeth ploughed briskly northward with a moderately favourable wind for two days and nights without ever catching a glimpse of their quarry.