snowplow

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noun

snow·​plow ˈsnō-ˌplau̇ How to pronounce snowplow (audio)
1
: any of various devices used for clearing away snow
2
: a stemming with both skis used for coming to a stop, slowing down, or descending slowly

snowplow

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verb

snowplowed; snowplowing; snowplows

intransitive verb

: to execute a snowplow
snowplowed to a stop

Examples of snowplow in a Sentence

Verb He snowplowed to a stop.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The actor, 53, shared a photo of himself working out in a basement gym nearly 14 months after breaking more than 30 bones and undergoing multiple surgeries following his near-fatal snowplow accident. Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024 Residents hunkered down, ski resorts closed up shop, and snowplows hustled to clear roads as an enormous snowstorm descended on the Sierra Nevada on Friday, including the Lake Tahoe area, with as much as 12 feet of snow expected at the highest elevations and winds gusting over 100 miles an hour. Megan Michelson, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 Drivers of Oakland County’s snowplows, all 145 of them, are directed to stay well below speed limits, never going more than 55 mph, Bryson said. Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024 The contest was originally set to name one of the county’s 26 snowplows, but because of the overwhelming numbers of suggestions, it was decided that two plows would be named for the top two vote-getters, Berndt said. Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 26 Jan. 2024 Iowa's Department of Transportation sent about 700 snowplows out to try and clear the roads. Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024 As shown on a dashcam video shot by a snowplow, the pickup scooted around the left side of a plow driver who was just doing his job in the far-right lane of Interstate 75. Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024 Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment Managers: Josh Goldenberg Production Company: Skydance Entertainment A forty-three-year-old snowplow driver decides to get his high school hockey team back together to play a state championship game. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023 Jeremy Renner is recalling how Anthony Mackie rushed to his side in the days following his snowplow accident. Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
Verb
That’s why after ordering a new 10-ton 2022 Freightliner snowplow in 2021 the city is already moving ahead with an additional 2023 model. John Benson, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022 Some Massachusetts towns, for example, are offering up to $310 an hour to snowplow operators amid stiff competition for commercial drivers. al, 16 Nov. 2021 Beyond body cameras for Kenosha County Sheriff deputies, the budget includes funding for projects that ranged from highway improvements to snowplow equipment. Ricardo Torres, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2020 Parents are hovering and helicoptering and snowplowing in ways that are so toxic for their children. Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 14 June 2019 Yet somehow within an hour, the whole circus, from snowball-hurling middle schoolers to wobbly kindergartners, is snowplowing, then speeding, downhill. Melody Warnick, Woman's Day, 2 Apr. 2019 The board is also reviewing a homeowners association agreement, which outlines how the group will be responsible for a common septic system, and snowplowing the development’s private road, Guimond said. Jill Terreri Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018 The results show the risks posed by the deficit-reduction plan that lawmakers have advanced to help pay for basic government services like schools and snowplowing while preserving a decades-old cash benefit. Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2018 Already a few bike trails are snowplowed in winter to allow hardy residents with fat-tired bikes to get around. Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 10 May 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1792, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of snowplow was in 1792

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“Snowplow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snowplow. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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snowplow

noun
snow·​plow
-ˌplau̇
: any of various devices used for clearing away snow

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