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Meaning of PLOWMAN

Pronunciation:  'plawmun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a man who plows
 
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 Synonyms: ploughman, plower
 
 See Also: farm worker, farmhand, fieldhand

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Plow"man\, Ploughman \Plough"man\, n.; pl. {-men}.
1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a
   husbandman. --Chaucer. Macaulay.
2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
{Plowman's spikenard} (Bot.), a European composite weed
   ({Conyza squarrosa}), having fragrant roots. --Dr. Prior.
 
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 Related Terms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, Bauer, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman
 

 

 

 

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