Definitions
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- noun dated A
boy who directed theanimals that pulled aplough
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- noun a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
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Examples
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'As ignorant as a ploughboy,' is a phrase fallen into disuse.
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Dennis did not mind being called a ploughboy a bit.
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Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy.
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Let us concede that the high-born Grig rode into the entrenchments at Sobraon as gallantly as Corporal Wallop, the ex-ploughboy.
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I have no false pride, as many men of high lineage like my own have, and, in default of better company, will hob and nob with a ploughboy or a private soldier just as readily as with the first noble in the land.
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Mr. Milliken what I please; but not YOU, you little scamp of a clod-hopping ploughboy.
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The blind old owl, whirring out of the hollow tree, quite amazed at the disturbance, flounced into the face of a ploughboy, who knocked her down with a pitchfork.
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The proverbial ploughboy singing the psalms at his work as Tyndale put it.
Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London
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I do not wish to make an idol of the Shorter Catechism; but the fact of such a question being asked opens to us Scotch a great field of speculation; and the fact that it is asked of all of us, from the peer to the ploughboy, binds us more nearly together.
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“Here,” said the ploughboy, “is something for you — from the master.”
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