ploughboy
Britishnoun
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a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
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any country boy
Example Sentences
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There are any number of devious plot complications that involve a sea monster, help from the gods and the heroic ministrations of a ploughboy, Giustino.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
I am no shepherd, No mountain-dweller, I am not a ploughboy, Uncouth and stinking of cattle.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2018
It was this idea that drove the exceptional linguist and Oxford scholar William Tyndale to risk and eventually lose his life so the ploughboy might read the Bible in his own language.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section.
From Time Magazine Archive
The surly ploughboy, who omitted to touch his cap to the lady, little imagined the train of painful reflections roused by this small indication of the altering spirit of the place!
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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