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What (who) is the plough - definition

LARGE GROUPING OF STARS, PART OF URSA MAJOR CONSTELLATION

The Plough; Charles's Wain; Big dipper; Big Dipper (asterism); Charles' Wain; The Great Dipper; Northern Dipper; Big Dipper'; Great Wain; Plough (asterism); Northern Ladle

charles's wain

The Great Bear, Ursa Major, The Wain, The Cleaver, The Dipper.

Big Dipper

The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the Plough (UK, Ireland) is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude. Four define a "bowl" or "body" and three define a "handle" or "head".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper

Charles's Wain

·- The group of seven stars, commonly called the Dipper, in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear. ·see Ursa major, under Ursa.

Wikipedia

Big Dipper

The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the Plough (UK, Ireland) is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them are of second magnitude and one, Megrez (δ), of third magnitude. Four define a "bowl" or "body" and three define a "handle" or "head". It is recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures. The North Star (Polaris), the current northern pole star and the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper (Little Bear), can be located by extending an imaginary line through the front two stars of the asterism, Merak (β) and Dubhe (α). This makes it useful in celestial navigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big Dipper

Examples of use of the plough

1. It’s often hard even to see bigger constellations such as the Plough — either Ursa Minor or Major.

2. The night after Madeleine went missing, a British expat walked into the Plough and Harrow pub in Praia da Luz, still owned by his parents Tony, 57, and Jill, 58, and asked: "Where‘s Christian then?". Locals have disparagingly nicknamed the pub ‘The Plough and Paedophile‘ and the missing man is widely disliked in the tight–knit community.

3. He practised law until 1''0 but his passions were football – which he played as a youth, becoming known as "the plough" – and politics.

4. And in the past, they‘ve been much too eager to take the plough to a flower–rich hay meadow or set about an ancient hedge with the bulldozer.

5. The damage now done, the cattle are fewer than they once were in Morifi, which is why Mr Lekhoana has nothing to pull the plough this year.