ploughman

esp US plowman

/ (ˈplaʊmən) /

noun plural -men

a man who ploughs, esp using horses

any farm labourer

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Derived forms of ploughman

ploughmanship or esp US plowmanship, noun

Words nearby ploughman

plotz, plotzed, plough, plough back, ploughboy, ploughman, ploughman's lunch, ploughman's spikenard, Plough Monday, ploughshare, ploughstaff

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Example sentences from the Web for ploughman

Across the ocean another field equally favored knows well the ploughman, and yet the weeds are rank.
Talks To Farmers|Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The whole of the food could only be taken by a ploughman's appetite, and only be digested by a navigator's stomach.
The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England|George Jacob Holyoake
Three leagues across the dim, moonlit champaign ran the road, straight as a ploughman's furrow.
Roads of Destiny|O. Henry
Our Arabic at that time was nil; there was no chance of a word with the ploughman unless through Mohammed.
In the Tail of the Peacock|Isabel Savory

It also follows the ploughman to feed on the insects turned up by the plough.
The Natural History of Cage Birds|J. M. Bechstein

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