snowplow

See also: snow plow

English

Snowplow removing snow from a road.

Alternative forms

• snow plow
• snowplough, snow plough (Commonwealth)

Etymology

snow +‎ plow

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• snowplough model, snowplow model
• snowplough turn, snowplow turn
• snowplow parent, snowplow parenting

Translations

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)
• 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)

device

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掃雪機／扫雪机 (zh) (sǎoxuějī)

• Danish: sneplov (da) c
• Dutch: sneeuwruimer m, sneeuwploeg (nl) f
• Finnish: lumiaura (fi), aura (fi)
• Greek: εκχιονιστήρας (el) m (ekchionistíras)
• Japanese: 除雪機 (じょせつき, josetsuki)
• Korean: 제설기(除雪機) (ko) (jeseolgi)
• Latvian: sniega arkls m
• Romanian: plug de zăpadă (ro) n
• Russian: снегоочисти́тель (ru) m (snegoočistítelʹ)
• Swedish: plog (sv) c, snöplog (sv) c
• Ukrainian: снігоочи́сник m (snihoočýsnyk)
• Yakut: хаар ыраастыыр (qaar ıraastıır)

in skiing or skating

• Bulgarian: ра́ло n (rálo)
• Catalan: angle (ca), cunya (ca)
• Finnish: auraus (fi)
• French: chasse-neige (fr)
• German: Stemmbogen m, Pizzastück (de) n
• Russian: плуг (ru) m (plug)
• Spanish: cuña (es)

Verb

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.

Translations

transitive: clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow

• Dutch: sneeuwruimen (nl)
• Finnish: aurata (fi)
• Greek: εκχιονίζω (el) (ekchionízo)
• Romanian: deszăpezi (ro)
• Swedish: ploga (sv)

intransitive: perform a snowplow in skiing

• Catalan: fer angle (ca)
• Finnish: aurata (fi)
• Swedish: ploga (sv)

Further reading

• Snowplow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• conga line
• snowblower