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 was no avoiding the find; and away went "Bluebeard," "Ploughboy," "Gaylass" and all the leading hounds, followed by the whole pack, in full chorus, straight along the path at top speed.
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
Ploughboy finds the following remark in Mr. GREELEY'S thirtieth What, and asks explanation.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 by Various
Seldom or never had the risible nerves of the burly backwoodsmen on board the Ploughboy steamer, been so enormously tickled as by the discovery of this Yankee trick.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
The pack was disabled for weeks, as the two leading hounds, Merriman and Ploughboy, were severely injured.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
We were going our twenty knots, and keep it up we must if we did not want to fall back amongst the mob of the Huntress, the Ploughboy, and the rest of them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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