PLOUGHMAN (ploughmen)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ploughmen   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ploughman mean? 

• PLOUGHMAN (noun)
  The noun PLOUGHMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who plows

  Familiarity information: PLOUGHMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOUGHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who plows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ploughman; plower; plowman

Hypernyms ("ploughman" is a kind of...):

farm worker; farmhand; field hand; fieldhand (a hired hand on a farm)

 Context examples 

From babies who had but a week or two of life behind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to have but a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodily carrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking away samples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age and occupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass of the “tween decks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)