snow-ploughn.

1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 79 When a deep snow has obstructed the roads, they are in some places opened by an instrument called a snow plough. It is made of planks, in a triangular form, with two side boards to turn the snow out on either hand.

1829 ‘D. Conway’ Journey Norway 148 Immediately after the snow has ceased the snow-plough is used.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Snow-plough, a machine for clearing away snow from railway tracks.

1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia (1892) xxxiv. 379 The huge snow ploughs (driven sometimes by six or eight locomotives) had been at work.

1905 W. R. Rickmers & E. C. Richardson in D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running (ed. 2) 69 Stemming is akin to snow-ploughing, and by some German writers the stemming position is termed the half-snow-plough position.

1922 V. Caulfeild Ski-ing Turns vii. 134 Although it is unsafe for any one but an expert to take the snow-plough position when travelling at all fast, this Snow-plough Christiania can be done at a good deal higher speed than the Pure Snow-plough turn.

1936 O. Schniebs Skiing for All iii. 33 The double-stem (snow-plow position) is the brake in skiing.

1948 P. Lunn Ski-ing Primer xi. 56 The snow-plough..is not only a useful manœuvre in itself, but is also the basis of the stem turn.

1953 A. Woodburn tr. Jacques Downhill Skiing i. iii. 79 The snow plough position..is one of the few that the beginner finds quite natural.

1966 A. N. Gooding Basic Ski-ing vi. 37 You first learn how to stop by using the Snowplough Brake.

1978 Observer 29 Jan. 35/1 Our instructor starts us on snowplough turns (with the tips of the skis pointing inwards).

1981 Northeast Woods & Waters Jan. 27/2 The snowplow, the ‘dinking on the ski tips inward to make turns or to stop’ is definitely a beginner maneuver.

1928 E. Jessup Skis & Ski-ing ix. 124 Very often it suffices to brake with the skis fairly flat on snow. In such cases, bend your knees inward only slightly... When you ‘snowplough’ in the foregoing fashion, both of your skis are serving as brakes.

1959 P. Moyes Dead Men don't Ski iv. 50 They had learnt, now, to snow-plough—putting the tips of their skis together to slow down or stop.

1979 N. Slater Falcon ix. 161 He snow-ploughed down towards her..snapped off his ski-bindings.

1904 D. M. M. C. Somerville et al. Ski-running 39 The Norwegians call it ‘snow-ploughing’, but ‘stemming’ is shorter, and, we think, more expressive.

1961 Times 14 Feb. 14/7 The usual portly Frenchman..who charges along, skis wide apart and braking hard by stemming or ‘snowploughing’.