Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who plows.
- noun A farmer or rustic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who plows or guides a plow; a farm laborer who is or may be engaged in plowing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.
- noun A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
- noun (Bot.) a European composite weed (
Conyza squarrosa ), having fragrant roots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A male
plower , whoplows land with aplough .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who plows
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Examples
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It's snowing again in the New England, and of course the plowman is on his own timetable.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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My plowman was a young man -- a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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I've heard it said that at Forst Reach, 'plowman' and 'wild beast tamer' are considered to be one and the same thing. "
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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As Paulson, the head plowman, complained privily to Dawson, the crop manager:
CHAPTER IV 2010
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“Every farmer his own plowman while sitting on his front porch,” Dick baffled back.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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The plowman poet spoke not only to his fellow commoners but also the intellectuals of Edinburgh and many Scottish lords of the manors.
robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Like his poem's busy plowman, the dog absorbed by doggy life, the executioner's itchy horse, like the pretty ship with somewhere else to go, we too seldom attend to -- too seldom partake in -- the failing and the suffering of our various members, and we therefore fail to realize the fullness, the reality, the appalling mystery of life as One Body.
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Like his poem's busy plowman, the dog absorbed by doggy life, the executioner's itchy horse, like the pretty ship with somewhere else to go, we too seldom attend to -- too seldom partake in -- the failing and the suffering of our various members, and we therefore fail to realize the fullness, the reality, the appalling mystery of life as One Body.
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Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may
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