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Plough may refer to:

• Plough (also spelled plow), a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting .
• Plough, a name sometimes used in Britain to refer to part of Ursa Major (αβγδεζη Ursae Majoris), a constellation visible throughout the year in the northern hemisphere.
• On a vehicle such as a tram, "plough" is the name commonly given to the pair of shoes, one pick-up and one return, both attached to a busbar, that draw power from a pair of live rails underneath the road.
• "Plough" is sometimes used as short for "ploughed land", for example in the foxhunter's expression "cold plough" for "newly ploughed land which holds little or no scent of the fox".