What does plough mean?
Word: Plough
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Plough means a farm tool pulled by animals or a machine to dig and turn over soil before planting. As a verb, to dig soil with this tool.
How do you spell plough?
Syllables: plough
Tricky part: The ow sound is spelt ough here, as in bough. The gh is silent.
Watch out for: plogh, ploughe, pluogh
Memory tip: Plough and bough sound alike and share the same tricky tail, with a gh that never makes a sound.
Idioms and Phrases
- plough through: to work slowly through something long or difficult Example: "Raghav ploughed through his history notes the night before the test."
Plough in a sentence
Example 1: The farmer used two bullocks to pull the plough across the field.
Example 2: The plough left long, straight furrows across the wet field.
Example 3: After the first rain, the villagers began to plough the land.
Fun Fact
The seven bright stars known in Britain as the Plough are called the Big Dipper in North America, and they are easy to spot on clear nights.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: plough
a) harvest
b) till
c) water
d) weed
Show answer
b) till. To till land is to dig and turn the soil, which is what a plough does.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) plough
b) irigation
c) harvist
d) tracter
Show answer
a) plough. Harvest ends in est, tractor ends in or, and irrigation has a double r.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ghulop
a) plug
b) cough
c) laugh
d) plough
Show answer
d) plough. Laugh and cough need letters that are not in the jumble, and plug leaves out the o and the h.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
At the begining of the monsoon, the farmers plough their land and sow rice.
a) begining
b) monsoon
c) plough
d) farmers
Show answer
a) begining. Beginning has a double n before the ing.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which word has the same ough sound as plough?
a) drought
b) cough
c) tough
d) though
Show answer
a) drought
2. Which machine now does most of the ploughing in Punjab?
a) the bulldozer
b) the tractor
c) the crane
d) the combine harvester
Show answer
b) the tractor
