Sulco, sulcas, sulcâre. Colum. To cast vp in furrowes: to make furrowes.Agros sulcare. Tib. To til fields in tidges or furrowes.Aequer sulcare.Ouid.To cleaue the water in flitting as a ship doth.Sulcare cutem rugis.Ouid.To make the skin wrinckled & ful of furrowes.Fluctus sulcare remige. Claud. To diuide and cut the water, &c.Humum sulcare vomere.Ouid.To til &c.Longa sulcat maria alta carina. Vir. Sulcare maria arbore.Virg.To cut the seas, &c.Pedibus sulcare pruinas. Propert. To go vpon, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sulco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [sulcus], to furrow, cut furrows through, to plough (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Cæs.). I.Lit., in agriculture: agros, Tib. 2, 3, 85: (rura) sulcata Camilli Vomere, Luc. 1, 168: vomere humum, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 68: campos vomere, Sil. 9, 191. — Absol.: recto plenoque sulcare, Col. 2, 2, 25.—II.Transf.(a). Ingen., to furrow, plough;poet., to sail over, traverse, pass through, etc.: sulcant fossas, quo pluvia aqua delabatur, Varr. R. R. 1, 29, 2: (anguis) harenam Sulcat, Ov. M. 15, 726: iter caudā, Luc. 9, 721: longā sulcant vada salsa carinā, Verg. A. 5, 158: rate undas, Ov. P. 2, 10, 33; id. M. 4, 707: maria arbore, Plin. 12, 1, 2, 5: regna volatu, Luc. 9, 668: sulcavitque cutem rugis,
furrowed her skin with wrinkles
, Ov. M. 3, 276: gressus, App. M. 5, p. 167, 22: sulcatis lateribus, i. e.
by lashes
, Amm. 14, 9, 5.—(b).To elaborate, to work out (cf. exaro), Ven. Fort. Vita Mart.