(now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
(now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
(obsolete) Good health.
A dire or unfortunate situation.
verb
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
(transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
plough
plough
noun
(yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
A joiner's plane for making grooves.
Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
The use of a plough; tillage.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).
(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
(intransitive) To use a plough.
(joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
(nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
(transitive) To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
(transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.
To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.