snowplough

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A form of snowplow — A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.

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Meanings

nounsnowplough (plural snowploughs)

plural snowploughs · alternative snow plough

  1. UKalternativeAlternative form of snowplow.

    A "J36" 0-6-0 with the normal snowplough had to give up at Lumphanan and returned home, whereupon a Stanier Class "5" with a large snowplough and two coaches of workmen with shovels, went up and eventually drove a path through to Ballater.

    1960 March, “The January blizzard in the North-East of Scotland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 139
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    In another initiative, NR [Network Rail] is to fund snowploughs for fitting to NYMR's [North Yorkshire Moors Railway's] Class 25 diesel loco, facilitating the clearance of snow from the line as far west as Battersby under a track access agreement.

    2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78
verbsnowplough (third-person singular simple present snowploughs, present participle snowploughing, simple past and past participle snowploughed)

present singular third person snowploughs · participle present snowploughing · participle past snowploughed · past snowploughed · alternative snow plough

  1. UKalternativeAlternative form of snowplow.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna vehicle used to push snow from roads

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motor vehicleautomotive vehicle
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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APA

snowplough. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowplough

MLA

“snowplough.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowplough. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snowplough,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snowplough.

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