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plowman

[plau-muhn] / ˈplaʊ mən /


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Nick Belles, 26, a plowman clearing commercial lots in Buffalo’s south towns, said he got a total of three hours of sleep during a three-day stretch.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2022

But at the time, it was seen as very democratic, which is why you have a milkmaid poet and a plowman poet.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2016

Boötes, the plowman, might as well be a saucepan, and Lyra, the musical instrument, looks to me like a fry basket.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2012

The landed gentry and the contented plowman are typical Taurus folk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Catelyn spied a second camp strung out along the bank north of the Tumblestone, familiar standards flapping in the wind—Marq Piper's dancing maiden, Darry's plowman, the twining red-and-white snakes of the Paeges.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018

From the 1880s to the late 1920s, Presque Isle Bay in winter was inhabited by a different lot of outdoorsmen - scores of polers, plowmen, feeders, packers and foremen.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2018

Real plowmen and artisans won public office only rarely, but middling farmers, petty traders, successful mechanics, and ambitious country lawyers won elections in all the states.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Still, it’s pretty easy to come up with controls to regulate quality through random spot-checks and audits with customer service reps or even plowmen.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013

So a' set oot an' ransackit the parish till a' got him, an' gin he wesna sittin' in a bothie takin' brose wi' the plowmen an' expoundin' Scripture a' the time.

From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren


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