plowman
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈplaʊmən/
- Archaic
:
arador
- But his broad shoulders, plowman's back, and stout legs testified to a common upbringing.
It's like the it's like the plough on the the ploughman on the field.
- It's like the it's like the plough on the the ploughman on the field.
Examples
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Some distance behind the second plowman was a little boy, also walking in the furrow and carrying a tin can; from time to time, he bent and picked something up from the freshly turned earth and dropped it into the can.
Fiction book (1992) -
He's talking about the plowman who has his back turned to the fall.
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The first plowman was Art's father; the second, his brother, Mart.
Fiction book (1992) -
Got your plowman, your fisherman, your shepherd.
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Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
Blog text (21) -
Neither ought our hands to hang dangling down, nor should our arms be projected or tossed backwards and forwards, like a plowman who is sowing his corn.
Academic text (1996) -
The plowman drove the heavy machinery across the field, preparing the soil for planting.
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Every morning, the plowman begins his day by harnessing his horses and readying the plow.
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Under the watchful eye of the farm manager, the plowman expertly tilled the land.
Synonyms
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1.1
A person who works on a farm doing jobs like planting or harvesting
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3.0
A person paid to work on a farm doing hard work
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1.6
A person who works on a farm doing physical tasks like planting and caring for animals
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4.0
A person who does hard physical work on a farm
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5.6
A person who breaks and turns soil to prepare land for planting
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3.2
A man who works on a farm for pay
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5.6
A person who turns soil with a tool to prepare fields for planting
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3.2
A person who works on a farm doing manual tasks like planting and harvesting
A woman who turns and prepares the soil in fields with animals or machines
A boy who guides animals pulling a plow on a farm
A person who works on a farm doing physical work in the fields
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word plowman comes from the tool plow and the word man. The word plow meant 'to cut and turn the soil', so a plowman is literally the person who works the fields by using a plow.