ploughman

esp US plowman

/ (ˈplaʊmən) /

noun plural -men

a man who ploughs, esp using horses

any farm labourer

Nearby words

plotzed, plough, plough back, plough monday, ploughboy, ploughman, ploughman's lunch, ploughman's spikenard, ploughshare, ploughstaff, plouk

Derived Formsploughmanship or esp US plowmanship, noun

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Examples 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