plough
noun
plow.
plougher
-
a word derived from
plough.
Example Sentences
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They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
O Sobhari, call loud with your newest song the young, strong, and pure Maruts, as the plougher calls the cows.
From Sacred Books of the East by Various
I'm beginning to feel already rather as if a plougher had ploughed upon my back and made large furrows; but of course I'm thinking principally of Frank on account of his sprained ankle.
From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham
"Eat what, I wonder!" zaid the heäiry plougher.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
He is also said to be the inventor of the plough, therefore was named Zeus the plougher, as if he were Jupiter, the president of agriculture.
From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous
