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Definition of Ploughed

1. Adjective. (of farmland) broken and turned over with a plow. "Plowed fields"

Definition of Ploughed

1. Verb. (past of ''plough'') ¹

2. Adjective. Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops). ¹

3. Adjective. (figuratively rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ploughed

1. plough [v] - See also: plough

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploughed

Literary usage of Ploughed

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

1. The Southern Planter (1852)
"together with the incumbrance of corn-stalks to be removed and their stubble to be ploughed under—make the seeding in wheat of corn- land more laborious ..."

2. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"... er ploughed Land. TERRA Mutua \ that earthy Part or thick draft? Matter, which remains afte •b« ..."

3. English Agriculture in 1850-51 by James Caird (1852)
"Beginning with (1) wheat after seeds, the land is ploughed and pressed, ... The stubble is then ploughed in autumn in preparation for (2) turnips, ..."

4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"The headlands of a ploughed field, where the plough has been turned. South. ... Balks between the ridges of ploughed land. SIDELONG,». ..."

5. The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857)
"These flats are sometimes ploughed, but some of them have not been ploughed for forty years, and yet bear good grass. The feed is abundant. ..."

6. The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1856)
"These flats are sometimes ploughed, but some of them have not been ploughed for forty years, and yet bear good grass. The feed is abundant. ..."

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