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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plowboy

Plowboy \Plow"boy`\, Ploughboy \Plough"boy`\, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

Wiktionary
plowboy

n. 1 A boy plower, a boy who plows. 2 A knave who helps the plowman by driving the draught animals in front of the plow.

WordNet
plowboy

n. a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow [syn: ploughboy]

Usage examples of "plowboy".

He was well over six feet and loose-jointed, but what certain coeds at City had once described as a plowboy physique, rawboned and taut-muscled, had run to flab after three years of avoiding work details.

For the next two or three weeks of the campaign, they moved in a caravan made up of a large black platform truck loaded with sound equipment, wooden folding chairs, and HAMM SPARKS FOR GOVERNOR banners, followed by three cars: Le Roy and the Missouri Plowboys in one, Hamm and assorted cronies in another, and Betty Raye, Hamm Jr.

The Protestants said that a plowboy with a Bible had as much authority as all the popes and councils that ever met.

His hands were clasped on his chest, large hands, nicked and scarred, a digger and rock gouger, a plowboy once.

In this same Whitby Abbey, some twelve hundred years before I came to it, the plowboy poet Caedmon was the first in England to sing a hymn to the creative god of Christendom.

She was wearing plowboy overalls chopped short at the calves, held together at the shoulders by pressure clips.

But the menace lay in the fact that in the hands of a plowboy the spindilly would not be used with precision.

Le Roy Oatman over in Nashville, who had a hillbilly band called the Tennessee Plowboys and hired them.

Missouri Plowboys, said good-bye to Betty Raye and the kids and hit the road.

What followed next were long days of running up and down every road in Missouri, packed in cars with trucks following behind carrying sound equipment, banners, folding chairs, a portable stage, and Le Roy Oatman and the Missouri Plowboys, who had been pulled back in for the occasion.

If he stumbled twice in a row, even the dumb-ass hayseed plowboys who pulled guard duty at Twin Towers might get suspicious.

A poster for Banjo Dan and the Midnite Plowboys was framed on one wall and definitely caught my attention.