Synonyms:
plowing, ploughing
Meaning: tilling the land with a plow; "he hired someone to do the plowing for him"
Usage examples
Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.
When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.
And his knees that were stiffened with the plowing he bent until they were made supple again.
I don't know much about plowing and that sort of thing, but I suppose any able-bodied man can earn a pound a week, and that would be fifty-two pounds for a suit of clothes.
We should see one man plowing a field, another building houses; this one forging metals, that one cutting clothes; and still others storing the products, and superintending their distribution.
Ages after, a farmer in Grand Chote, Michigan, plowing up his clover field, to sow for winter wheat, picked up a curious bit of "petrified honeycomb," and gave it to the schoolboys to take to their teacher, to hear what he would say about it.