ploughboy

/ ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ /

noun

1. a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
2. any country boy

Example Sentences

A Mid-Lothian farmer, observed to his ploughboy that there was a fly in his milk.

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There is nothing new to tempt the ploughboy's pennies—nothing fresh to stare at.

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But if a ploughboy could get a new, warm lardy-cake, fresh from the oven, he thought himself blessed.

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Servants have as little need of French verbs and hieroglyphics as the ploughboy or the dairymaid.

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He was first a ploughboy, next an attorney's clerk, and then he enlisted in the 24th regiment.

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