What does plowing mean?
Definitions for plowing
plow·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
plowing, ploughingnoun
tilling the land with a plow
"he hired someone to do the plowing for him"
Wiktionary
plowingverb
riding with neither foot leading, with the stick perpendicular to the fall line; not goofy nor regular.
plowingverb
ploughing
Wikipedia
plowing
A plough or plow (US; both ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but in modern farms are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame, with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has been fundamental to farming for most of history. The earliest ploughs had no wheels; such a plough was known to the Romans as an aratrum. Celtic peoples first came to use wheeled ploughs in the Roman era.The prime purpose of ploughing is to turn over the uppermost soil, bringing fresh nutrients to the surface while burying weeds and crop remains to decay. Trenches cut by the plough are called furrows. In modern use, a ploughed field is normally left to dry and then harrowed before planting. Ploughing and cultivating soil evens the content of the upper 12 to 25 centimetres (5 to 10 in) layer of soil, where most plant feeder roots grow. Ploughs were initially powered by humans, but the use of farm animals is considerably more efficient. The earliest animals worked were oxen. Later, horses and mules were used in many areas. With the Industrial Revolution came the possibility of steam engines to pull ploughs. These in turn were superseded by internal-combustion-powered tractors in the early 20th century. Use of the traditional plough has decreased in some areas threatened by soil damage and erosion. Used instead is shallower ploughing or other less-invasive conservation tillage.
ChatGPT
plowing
Plowing is an agricultural process involving the digging and turning over of soil in preparation for planting crops. It is generally performed using a plow, a specialized tool or machine. Plowing could also refer to the clearing of snow from roads and sidewalks using vehicles equipped with plow blades.
Webster Dictionary
Plowing
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of plowing in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of plowing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of plowing in a Sentence
One thing is all things. To resolve one matter, one must resolve all matters. Changing one thing changes all things. Once I made the decision to sow rice in the fall, I found that I could also stop transplanting, and plowing, and applying chemical fertilizers, and preparing compost, and spraying pesticides.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
In the church, we have a saying, keep your hand on the plow, you're plowing hard ground, the roots of racism and inequity are deep … more reason to hold on tight and keep at it for the sake of truth, humanity and unity. The debate over critical race theory is in schools and government, but now it's starting to infiltrate and divide the Christian church. ( iStock) Critical race theory has begun to cause fissures in evangelical circles. In 2019 the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most conservative Christian denominations, adopted Resolution 9, which accepted some of the tenets of CRT as a.
Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam:
He was being a great neighbor and he was plowing those roads for his neighbor.
It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.
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