See also: snow plow

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Snowplow removing snow from a road.

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snow +‎ plow

Noun edit

snowplow (plural snowplows) (American spelling)

  1. A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.
  2. A device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow.
  3. (skiing, skating) A maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.

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snowplow (third-person singular simple present snowplows, present participle snowplowing, simple past and past participle snowplowed) (American spelling)

  1. (transitive) To clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow.
  2. (intransitive) To perform a snowplow in skiing.

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