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PLOWMAN (ploughmen)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plowman mean?
• PLOWMAN (noun)
The noun PLOWMAN has 1 sense:
1. a man who plows
Familiarity information: PLOWMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man who plows
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("plowman" 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)
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