Definition of Pleughs

1. pleugh [n] - See also: pleugh

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleughs

plethysmogram
plethysmograms
plethysmograph
plethysmographic
plethysmographical
plethysmographically
plethysmographs
plethysmography
plethysmometer
plethysmometry
pletzel
pletzels
pleuch
pleuchs
pleugh
pleughs (current term)
pleumato-
pleuntic
pleura
pleura costalis
pleura diaphragmatica
pleura mediastinalis
pleura parietalis
pleura pericardiaca
pleura phrenica
pleura pulmonalis
pleura visceralis
pleuracentesis
pleurae
pleural

Literary usage of Pleughs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Highways and Byways in the Border by Andrew Lang, John Lang (1914)
"... on which is carved : " Here Hoby Hall boldly maintained his right 'Gainst reef plain force armed w. lawless might For twenty pleughs harnessed in all ..."

2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland by Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy (1845)
"... Could not his valient nobl Heart make Fear, But with his sword he cut the formost Soam In two : hence drove both pleughs and ..."

3. Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland (1898)
"... being xij. myles of length, . . whereupon was a hundreth pleughs; ... being viij. myles of length in the said Marches, whereupon was vii. pleughs, ..."

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