plough: [OE] Plough was not the original English word for an ‘implement for turning over the soil’. That was Old English sulh, a relative of Latin sulcus ‘furrow’. Plough was borrowed in the 10th century from Old Norse plógr, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *plōgaz. And this in turn was derived from a base *plōgacquired from one of the ancient Indo-European languages of northern Italy (source also of Latin plaustrum ‘wagon’). The earliest record we have of the word being used for the characteristically shaped group of seven stars in Ursa major is from early 16th-century Scotland.
plough
alternative spelling of plow. Related: Ploughed; ploughing.
例文
1. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.
それはお金を出して農民を雇ってこの低いジャングルを開墾して麦を植える。
2.This is early-20 th-century rural Sussex,when horses still pulled the plough .
これは20世紀初頭のサセックス村で、その時もマラプラウを使っていた。
3.The soil sticks to the blade and blocks the plough .