' A pageant to celebrate the termination of the labours of the plough ; see below.
' A pageant to celebrate the termination of the labours of the plough ; see below. Cf fond-plough.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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The use of a plough; tillage.
(agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
(UK, legal, historical) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry.
(UK, idiomatic) To carry out an action in isolation, or in an original way, without any help or support from others.
An older English verb, possibly related to dialectal 'ploit' or connected to plundering vocabulary of the 16th–17th centuries. 'Ploat' suggests hurried, opportunistic ransacking — grabbing what can be taken rather than systematic looting. It appears in border ballads and piracy narratives.