plow

• vi. [farm machinery] plough; plough; break the waves; make a road
• vt.［農機具］鋤；耕す；道を開く
• n. [農機具]プラウ；プラウのような道具；ディッパー

ploughのアメリカでの綴りから。

plow (n.)

late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cognates: Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.

Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow" (see sulcus). As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.

plow (v.)

late 14c., from plow (n.). Transferred sense from 1580s. Related: Plowed; plowing.

1. Better that I 'd learned to plow or chop cotton like a darky.

は、黒人のように畑を耕し、綿を摘むことを覚えたほうがましだ。

2.A Texas farmer grumbled that he had to plow his field.

テキサス州の農場主がつぶやいた。彼は自分の土地を耕さなければならない。

3.At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.

毎年この時期には農民たちが畑を耕している。

4.A farmer must plow the land before planting crops.

農民は作物を植える前に畑を耕さなければならない。

5.At this time of the year farmers begin to plow their fields.

毎年この時期、農民たちは畑を耕し始めた。