Anagrams of: PLOUGHING

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

• move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil

• to break and turn over earth especially with a plow

• a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing

• the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly

• an opening into or through something

• an opening deliberately made in or through something

• one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course

• an unoccupied space

• a depression hollowed out of solid matter

• a fault

• informal terms for a difficult situation

• informal terms for the mouth

• hit the ball into the hole

• make holes in

• Not hip; uncool, unfashionable.

• An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.

• a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared

• Scottish writer of rustic verse (1770-1835)