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ring crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. Dryden.

Capable of being plowed; arable.

Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

Same as Plowgate.

The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott.

The clevis or draught iron of a plow.

Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay.

A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.

The hind part or handle of a plow.

One who makes or repairs plows.

A pewfellow. [Obs.]

To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.

To flow back; to ebb.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.