If rain fails, farmers will stop ploughing.
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Ploughing
Synonyms for "ploughing" (2 found)
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Translations
25 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَرْث verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Armenian
2 entries- հերկ verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- վար verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Bulgarian
1 entries- оран verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Czech
1 entries- orání verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
French
2 entries- labour verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- labourage verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Galician
3 entries- arada verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- aradura verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- decrúa verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
German
1 entries- Pflügen verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Greek
1 entries- όργωμα verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Hungarian
1 entries- szántás verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Ingrian
2 entries- kynty verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- kyntö verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Irish
1 entries- arathar verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Italian
1 entries- aratura verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Latvian
1 entries- aršana verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Norman
2 entries- tchéthuethie verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- touônn'nie verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Portuguese
2 entries- aragem verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
- aração verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Romanian
1 entries- arătură verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Russian
1 entries- па́хота verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Spanish
1 entries- arada verb (breaking of the ground into furrows)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
There may be a new lead in the "Tom" case: last week, a farmer, who was ploughing his field near the place where Tom's car was found abandoned twenty years ago, discovered human bones.
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For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.
Source: tatoeba (7899765)
If ploughing were a matter of gazing, anyone could thresh wheat.
Source: tatoeba (8896456)
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