plough sock, plowsock

A ploughshare. ( Scotch.) plough-staff, plow-staff, s. 1. A paddle to clean the coulter and share of a plough from weeds or earth; a pettle. 2. A plough-handle. tion for a degree; to pluck. ( Univ.slang.) "These two promising specimens were not ploughed ."Driven to Rome (1877), p. 68. *plough'-a-ble ( gh silent), *plow-a-ble, a. [Eng. plough ; -able .] Capable of being plowed; fit to be ploughed; arable. plough-boy ( gh silent), plow-boy, s . [English plough , and boy . A boy who follows or drives a team in ploughing; a country boy; hence, an ignorant, coarse boy. plougher ( gh silent), plow-er, subst. [English plough, v; -er. One who ploughs land; a cultivator, a ploughman. "Now I shall tell you who be the plowers."- Latimer : Sermon of the Plow. plough-mạn ( gh silent), plow-man, s . [Eng. plough , v., and man.] One who ploughs; one who holds or guides a plough; a farm-laborer who is, or may be engaged for ploughing. "No Devons hire ploughman or Cornish miner who had taken arms to defend his wife and children against Tourville."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xviii. ploughman's spikenard, s. Botany: Inula conyza , a pubescent plant, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, and branched corymbs of yellow flowers. Frequent on chalky or clayey soils. plough'-shäre, plow-shäre, *plowh-schare, s. [Eng. plough , s., and share shear (q. v.).] Agriculture : Arcturus (q. v.). "Thee, plow - star, eke Arcture." Stony hurst: Virgil's Æneid iii. 528. *plough-start, *plough-stert, subst . A plough handle. plough-stuff, plow-stuff, s. Curved wood, generally ash, used for ploughs.