Search for crossword answers and clues
Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales"
Answer for the clue "Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales" ", 7 letters:
plowman
Alternative clues for the word plowman
Word definitions for plowman in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man who plows [syn: ploughman , plower ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plowman \Plow"man\, Ploughman \Plough"man\, n.; pl. -men . One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. --Chaucer. Macaulay. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard (Bot.), a European composite weed ( Conyza ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Plowman is an occupational surname based on plowman, the user of a plow . Notable people with the surname include: Anna-Louise Plowman (born c. 1972), New Zealand actress Arthur J. Plowman (1872-1942), American politician Sir Anthony Plowman (1905–1993) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A male plower, who plows land with a plough. n. A male plower, who plows land with a plough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also plow-man , c.1300, from plow + man (n.).
Usage examples of plowman.
They were all herdsmen and plowmen, they knew a thing or two about cattle: which goat or bull to couple with which she-goat or cow to get the strongest young and make the herd thrive.
One by one, Jodi and Beaker took the youngest of the geldings into the exercise yard and ran them through the training routine, only turning them over to the plowmen when they were sure that the horses understood what they were being asked to do.
Strip it of these embarrassments, vest it in the Roman type which we have adopted instead of our English black letter, reform its uncouth orthography, and assimilate its pronunciation, as much as may be, to the present English, just as we do in reading Piers Plowman or Chaucer, and with the cotemporary vocabulary for the few lost words, we understand it as we do them.
The Anarchist pamphlet to which he refers is entitled The Russian Myth, and the editor of the Adelphi during the earlier part of the war was not John Middleton Murry, but the late Max Plowman.