ploughman
Britishnoun
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a man who ploughs, esp using horses
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any farm labourer
Other Word Forms
Vocabulary lists containing ploughman
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
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Thomasin McKenzie plays a young woman, Alyce, steeped in her own trauma and loss, who attaches herself to the ploughman, and her ability to express wide-eyed, barely contained hysteria and fear is unmatched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The 34-piece Roman silver collection was discovered by ploughman Gordon Butcher and has been on display in the British Museum since 1946, earning a place in its top 10 list of British treasures.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2020
“State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor,” Jefferson once wrote.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2016
If Margaret Catchpole had never set eyes on smuggler Will Laud, she would have probably married a ploughman, conceived a brood of children and died in her bed on her beloved Suffolk soil.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2012
‘The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow — an Elf.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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