PLOUGHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ploughed mean? 

• PLOUGHED (adjective)
  The adjective PLOUGHED has 1 sense:

1. (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

  Familiarity information: PLOUGHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOUGHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow

Synonyms:

ploughed; plowed

Context example:

plowed fields

Similar:

tilled (turned or stirred by plowing or harrowing or hoeing)

 Context examples 

Most of the fields had been ploughed then abandoned between one and 91 years earlier.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

The Ghost ploughed on her way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Heavy steps ploughed their way through the soft gravel, and a broad figure loomed upon us in the darkness.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It ran lightly on the surface of the snow, while the dogs ploughed through by main strength.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“What dangerous walking it is,” said he, “in this ploughed field! If I were to fall from one of these great clods, I should undoubtedly break my neck.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Methane is produced by bacteria that digest straw ploughed back into fields in paddy fields to enrich it.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and on the heaped-up edges of the footpaths it still lay as white as when it fell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One year after abandonment, fields had, on average, 38% of the plant diversity and 34% of the plant productivity of the land that was never ploughed.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)