6 sentences with 'plough'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plough and other words derived from it.
• « The ploughs were like those used in ancient Rome: the weight of the plough was carried on a stick that passed through the animal's neck. Therefore, if the load was too heavy the animal would simply suffocate. »
• « These ploughs were called carruca: a plough capable of digging deep into the soil and turning it over, bringing air into the topsoil and refreshing its mineral and nutrient content. »
• « They had, in Marx's language, some kind of protected access to "the means of production", which could mean anything from some land, a plough and an ox to a workshop stocked with carpenter's tools. »
• « The inscriptions also depict a human figure with a plough and archers wounding an animal. The interpretation of the archaeologists is that these figures are a representation of the phases of agricultural life, as well as being linked to religious rites and ceremonies. »
• « Although the Jeffersonian vision of the colonisation of America's new territories assumed that white peasants would single-handedly plough small, independent farms, the reality turned out to be quite different. »