Tra từ plough - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

plough [plough ploughs ploughed ploughing] (NAmE plow)noun, verb BrE [plaʊ] NAmE [plaʊ]
noun
1. countable a large piece of farming equipment with one or several curved blades, pulled by a ↑tractor or by animals. It is used for digging and turning over soil, especially before seeds are planted.
see also ↑snowplough
2. the Plough (BrE) (NAmE the ˌBig ˈDipper)singular a group of seven bright stars that can only be seen from the northern half of the world

Word Origin:
late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th cent.; earlier (16th–17th cents) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow.

Example Bank:
•the demise of the horse-drawn plough
Idioms: ↑plough a lonely, your own, etc, furrow ▪ ↑under the plough
Derived: ↑plough into somebody ▪ ↑plough on ▪ ↑plough something back ▪ ↑plough something back in ▪ ↑plough something into something ▪ ↑plough something up ▪ ↑plough through something

verb transitive, intransitive ~ (sth)
to dig and turn over a field or other area of land with a ↑plough
•ploughed fields
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Old English plōh, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ploeg and German Pflug. The spelling plough became common in England in the 18th cent.; earlier (16th–17th cents) the noun was normally spelled plough, the verb plow.

Collocations:
Farming
Growing food and raising animals
plant trees/seeds/crops/vines/barley
grow/produce corn/wheat/rice/fruit
plough/ (NAmE) plow land/a field
sow/harvest seeds/crops/fields
spread manure/fertilizer on sth
cultivate/irrigate/water/contaminate crops/plants/fields/land
damage/destroy/lose your crop
ripen/pick fruit/berries/grapes
press/dry/ferment grapes
grind/thresh grain/corn/wheat
raise/rear/keep chickens/poultry/cattle/pigs
raise/breed/feed/graze livestock/cattle/sheep
kill/slaughter livestock
preserve/smoke/cure/salt meat
Modern farming
run a fish farm/an organic dairy
engage in/be involved in intensive (pig/fish) farming
use/apply (chemical/organic) fertilizer/insecticides/pesticides
begin/do/conduct field trials of GM (= genetically modified) crops
grow/develop GM crops/seeds/plants/foods
fund/invest in genetic engineering/research
improve/increase crop yields
face/suffer from/alleviate food shortages
label food that contains GMOs (= genetically modified organisms)
eliminate/reduce farm subsidies
oppose/be against factory farming/GM food
promote/encourage/support organic/sustainable farming

Example Bank:
•The land was divided into large ploughed fields.

See also: ↑plow