The action of ploughing; an instance of this. In early use also: †the produce of ploughed land, a crop; a measure of ploughed land (obsolete).

The action of ploughing; (also) an instance of this, a ploughing. Also attributive, as earing-land, earing-time.

The action or process of furrowing the earth with a plough; an instance of this.

The action or operation of ploughing and breaking up land; an instance of this. Now rare.

The work of cultivating the soil; agriculture; spec. ploughing. Also: an instance of this. Obsolete.

Ploughing, the quantity of land that may be ploughed in a day (or other space of time).

The action of ploughing; a spell of ploughing. Chiefly attributive, as ear-land, ear-time. Cf. earing, n.1

An act or instance of ploughing land (cf. fallowing, n. 1). Obsolete.

Ploughing; esp. the fallowing, or ploughing up vacant land some time before the seed is put in.

(See quots.)

? The act of cutting or dividing the earth with the share in ploughing; the (greater or lesser) depth to which the share is driven in making a…

Ploughing.

(In form fur.) A ploughing. Now only Scottish.

An act of tilling or ploughing land: see till, v.1 4.

Ploughing; tillage.

(See quot.) Also attributive.

The action or process of using a breast plough to pare turf and other surface vegetation, or to plough land.

(a) adj.(of a plough) suitable for use in prairie-breaking; (b) n.heavy-duty ploughing of a kind requiring the use of a prairie breaker; †land…

ploughing virgin grassland; farming.