ploughboy

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ploughboy esp US, plowboy [ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough

2. any country boy

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ploughboy - a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow

plowboy

boy, male child - a youthful male person; "the baby was a boy"; "she made the boy brush his teeth every night"; "most soldiers are only boys in uniform"

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boy male child plough plowboy			Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context I've been breaking in the grey colt - no easy business that -directing the ploughing of the last wheat stubble - for the ploughboy has not the sense to direct himself - and carrying out a plan for the extensive and efficient draining of the low meadowlands. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte, Anne View in context One guessed him as the third generation, grandson to the shepherd or ploughboy whom civilization had sucked into the town; as one of the thousands who have lost the life of the body and failed to reach the life of the spirit. Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context			plot line plot of ground plot of land Plot-proof Plotful Plotinian Plotinist Plotinus plotless plotline Plott hound plottage plotted plotter plotting plotting board plough plough back plough horse plough in plough into Plough Monday plough on plough through plough up ploughboy ploughed ploughing ploughland ploughman ploughman's lunch ploughman's spikenard ploughshare ploughstaff ploughwright plouk plounce Plouter Plovdiv plover Plover's page Plow plow ahead Plow alms Plow beam plow horse Plow Monday Plow staff plow steel plow through Plowable			plough plough plough a lone furrow plough a lonely furrow plough a lonely furrow plough a lonely furrow Plough back Plough back Plough back plough deflector plough horse plough in plough into Plough Monday Plough Monday plough on plough own furrow plough own furrow Plough pan Plough pan plough through plough up plough up Plough Wind Plough Wind Plough-Back Plough-bote Plough-land ploughable ploughable ploughboy ploughed ploughed ploughed a lonely furrow ploughed a lonely furrow ploughed back ploughed back Ploughed Back Profit Ploughed Back Profits ploughed on ploughed on ploughed own furrow ploughed own furrow ploughed up ploughed up ploughed-and-tongued joint Ploughed-Back Profit Ploughed-Back Profits plougher plougher ploughers ploughers ploughing ploughing ploughing a lonely furrow ploughing a lonely furrow ploughing back ploughing back ploughing on ploughing on ploughing own furrow

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