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plowboy

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plow·boy  (plouboi)
n.
1. A boy who leads or guides a team of animals in plowing.
2. A country boy.
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Noun1.plowboy - a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow
ploughboy
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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On the Monday, a plowboy from Vale Regis arrived at Monksmoor.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
There was a plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
Anyhow, whatever particular kind of an earl a belted earl may be, he is, I assert, get-overable by flattery; just as every other human being is, from a duchess to a cat's-meat man, from a plow boy to a poet--and the poet far easier than the plowboy, for butter sinks better into wheaten bread than into oaten cakes.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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