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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ploughman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ploughman's lunch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A chance to see what makes a perfect ploughman.
▪ Get that ploughman to help you if he comes back up here.
▪ Taking a gamble, Seb bought a second plough and took on another ploughman.
▪ The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard.
▪ The homeward-bound ploughman roars his tractor across the flyover linking two fields bisected by the roar of the motorway beneath.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ploughman

Plowman \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.

Wiktionary
ploughman

n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of plowman English)

WordNet
ploughman
  1. n. a man who plows [syn: plowman, plower]

  2. [also: ploughmen (pl)]

Usage examples of "ploughman".

Ellisland, a beautiful spot, fit alike for the steps of ploughman or poet.

It is remarkable that the most naturally elegant and truly impassioned songs in our literature were written by a ploughman in honour of the rustic lasses around him.

I believe they are really his own, it may be some entertainment to a curious observer of human nature to see how a ploughman thinks, and feels, under the pressure of love, ambition, anxiety, grief, with the like cares and passions, which, however diversified by the modes and manners of life, operate pretty much alike, I believe, on all the species.

Brother-Leader of the Seneschal, most senior mediator between Artor the Ploughman and the hearts and souls of the Acharites, now Jayme mediated only between his own broken soul and the ghosts of his dreams and ambitions.

Artor the Ploughman completed His transformation and stepped into the room.

Far below the eagle, Jayme, Brother-Leader of the Religious Brotherhood of the Seneschal, most senior mediator between the one god Artor the Ploughman and the hearts and souls of the Acharites, paced across his comfortable chamber in the upper reaches of the Tower of the Seneschal.

The: the leader of the Axe-Wielders, appointed by the Brother-Leader for his loyalty to the Seneschal, his devotion to Artor the Ploughman and the Way of the Plough, and his skills as a military commander.

The Plough was the implement given by Artor the Ploughman to enable mankind to civilise themselves.

It teaches obedience to the one god, Artor the Ploughman, and the Way of the Plough.

BATTLEAXE, The: the leader of the Axe-Wielders, appointed by the Brother-Leader for his loyalty to the Seneschal, his devotion to Artor the Ploughman and the Way of the Plough, and his skills as a military commander.

The Plough was the implement given by Artor the Ploughman to enable mankind to civilize themselves.

His father was a Ploughman, the last son of a despised family of farmers, the only one allowed to stay in their part of District Six when the rest of them were displaced to Karrim.

No one would learn his name was Ploughman, no one would make him disappear.

Jacques pushed up the brim of his enormous hat and, gazing into the distance, spied a ploughman who was setting about one of the horses that was harnessed to his plough, though with no visible effect.

The horse, which was young and strong, had lain down in the furrow, and although the ploughman was yanking his bridle, urging him, stroking, threatening, cursing, and lashing him, the animal would not move and stubbornly refused to get up.