From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Snowplow removing snow from a road.
From snow + plow.
snowplow (plural snowplows) (American spelling)
- A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.
- A blade-like pushing device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow.
- (skiing, skating) A maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
vehicle
- Arabic: كَاسِحَةُ ثُلُوج f (kāsiḥatu ṯulūj)
- Bulgarian: снегори́н m (snegorín)
- Catalan: llevaneu (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 掃雪車 / 扫雪车 (sǎoxuěchē), 掃雪機 / 扫雪机 (zh) (sǎoxuějī)
- Czech: sněžný pluh m
- Danish: sneplov (da) c
- Dutch: sneeuwruimer m, sneeuwploeg (nl) f
- Esperanto: neĝoplugilo
- Finnish: lumiaura (fi), aura-auto (fi)
- French: (France) chasse-neige (fr), (Quebec) charrue (fr), déneigeuse (fr) f
- Georgian: თოვლსაწმენდი (tovlsac̣mendi)
- German: Schneepflug (de) m
- Greek: εκχιονιστήρας (el) m (ekchionistíras)
- Hebrew: מפלסת שלג f (mefaleset sheleg)
- Hungarian: hóeke (hu)
- Irish: céachta sneachta m
- Italian: spartineve m
- Japanese: 除雪車 (ja) (じょせつしゃ, josetsusha), スノープラウ (sunō purau)
- Korean: 제설차(除雪車) (ko) (jeseolcha)
- Latvian: sniega arkls m
- Luxembourgish: Schnéiplou m
- Polish: odśnieżarka (pl) f, pług śnieżny m
- Portuguese: limpa-neve m
- Romanian: plug de zăpadă (ro) n
- Russian: снегоочисти́тель (ru) m (snegoočistítelʹ), снегоубо́рочная маши́на f (snegoubóročnaja mašína), плу́жный снегоочисти́тель m (plúžnyj snegoočistítelʹ)
- Slovak: snežný pluh m
- Slovene: snežni plug m
- Spanish: quitanieves (es)
- Swedish: snöplog (sv) c, plogbil (sv) c
- Welsh: aradr eira f
- Yakut: хаар ыраастыыр (qaar ıraastıır)
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snowplow (third-person singular simple present snowplows, present participle snowplowing, simple past and past participle snowplowed) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow.
- (intransitive) To perform a snowplow in skiing.
transitive: clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow
