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PLOUGHING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tilling the land with a plow

Example:

he hired someone to do the plowing for him

Synonyms:

ploughing; plowing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ploughing" is a kind of...):

tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)

Derivation:

plough (to break and turn over earth especially with a plow)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb plough

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