Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the penis.

1580		Lyly Euphues and his England (1916) 209: Be not hasty to marry. It is better to have one plough going than two cradles.
1592		Greene Quip for an Upstart Courtier G: If his plough goes and his inkhorne be cleere [...] He is a kinge of his pleasure.
1604		Middleton Phoenix I ii: Would my father had held a plow so and fed upon squeezed curds and onions, that I might have bathed in sensuality.
1613		Beaumont & Fletcher Coxcomb I iii: But these women, / When they are once thirteen, God speed the plough!
1622		Fletcher Sea-Voyage IV i: We are unprofitable, and our Ploughs are broken; There is no hope of Harvest this year, Ladies.
1674		F. Fane ‘Iter Occidentale’ Harleian Mss. 7319.20: To meliorate tuffe barren C-ts for breed, Fitting them for the Ploughshare, & the Seed.
1697		Vanbrugh Provoked Wife V iii: Pretending the Corn was sow’d in the Ground, before ever the Plough had been in the Field.
1700		‘The Country-man’s Delight’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 124: With Plow and Cow, and Barley-Mow, / we busie all our Brains.
c.1719		‘To Chuse a Friend’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 133: You must as daily Labourers do / Be still a shoving with your Plow.
1724		A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) IV 369: Dear Nelly [...] No lords in their lives take pleasure in their wives Like fellows that drive the plow.
1730		K. O’Hara Tom Thumb II i: King Arthur in love ankle deep—speed the plough, / Glumdalca will soon be his punk-a.
1740		‘Roger Pheuquewell’ Description of Merryland (1741) 20: He sticks his Plough in it, and falls to labouring the Soil with all his Might, the Labourer being generally on his Knees.
1772		C. Crinkum Ænigmatical Repository 31: ’Tis better to employ one plough, / Than cradles two you’ll find.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 25: Good premiums the Fair do allow, / If you rid them of sorrow and care, / By driving the Natural Plough.
a.1800		‘The Ploughman’ in Burns Merry Muses of Caledonia (1965) 146: I’ll cleave it up, and hit it down, And water-furrow’ fair, jo ... I hae three ousen in my plough, Three better ne’er plough’d ground, jo. The foremost ox is lang and sma’, The twa are plump and round, jo’.

2. a male partner in intercourse.

2017

L. McInerney Blood Miracles : He doesn’t mention that Natalie’s been playiing the field [or] that she chose his own boss as her plough.