The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PLOUGH
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More clues leading to the result PLOUGH
- Do farm work quietly by Irish lake
- Farm implement in soft bog son removed
- Dig first for peat, a feature of Ireland
- Work from Poet Laureate: four letters, having eight rhymes
- Seven stars break ground
- Lakeside parking provided for stars …
- Turn up at quiet lake
- Cultivate the stars
- Power given by Irish water that produces agricultural turnover
- Cut a way through group of stars
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The straight part
We know that "Cultivate/stars" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case cultivate/stars = plough.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PLOUGH mean?
PLOUGH noun- The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
- To use a plough.
- To have sex with, penetrate.
- To move with force.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- To run through, as in sailing.
- To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- (university slang) To fail (a student).
- Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed