late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cognates: Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.
Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow" (see sulcus). As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.
plow (v.)
late 14c., from plow (n.). Transferred sense from 1580s. Related: Plowed; plowing.
雙語例句
1. Better that I'd learned to plow or chop cotton like a darky.
還不如當初象黑人那樣學會犁田、摘棉花呢.
來自飄（部分）
2. A Texas farmer grumbled that he had to plow his field.
有位得克薩斯州的農場主嘟嘟囔囔地說,他得耕自己的地.
來自百科語句
3. At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.
每年這個時候農民們都在耕地.
來自辭典例句
4. A farmer must plow the land before planting crops.
農民在種莊稼前必須犁地.
來自辭典例句
5. At this time of the year farmers begin to plow their fields.