Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who plows land; a cultivator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who plows, works land with a plow.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a man who plows

Etymologies

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plow +‎ -er

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Examples

  • More and more, homeowners are doing the math and figuring a machine can pay for itself after a few bad winters using a professional plower at $35 plus a pop.

    Happiness Is a Warm Snowblower 2009

  • He simply wanted to temporarily bridge the gap between the officer's upper and plower lips with a supporting rod.

    Breaking: Larry Craig Speaks Out About Men's Room Arrest 2009

  • Hey, Rob, you almost got run over by a plower yesterday.

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2007 2007

  • The little wench apparently got picked up by the snow plower and cuddled with him for Easter before being dropped off at animal control.

    Home yuki_onna 2007

  • Him her first lap, her his fast pal, for ditcher for plower, till deltas twoport.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • It is just funny, as none of our previous cats has been a blanket plower, but he takes such joy in it that you can't help but laugh to watch him do it.

    katress Diary Entry katress 2002

  • Think of the aching backs of the plower and the sower.

    Hebrew Life and Times 1918

  • I say, the plower and the sower traverse their habitations; nor hath this hardened wretch discovered the least remorse at the calamities of a people to whom he was sent as our ambassador; with whom he lived, conversed, and enjoyed all that hospitality could confer; whom he pretends to have himself gained to our alliance; whom he frequently visited in their prosperity, but basely betrayed in their distress.

    Against Demosthenes 1906

  • The plower and the sower now traverse the city of the Thebans, who united with us in the war against Philip.

    Against Demosthenes 1906

  • Riley, one of the slaves, who was a principal plower, was not on hand for work one

    Thirty years a slave : from bondage to freedom : the institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter, 1897

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