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Definition of Plowboy
1. Noun. A boy who leads the animals that draw a plow.
Definition of Plowboy
1. n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
Definition of Plowboy
1. Noun. A boy plower, a boy who plows. ¹
2. Noun. A knave who helps the plowman by driving the draught animals in front of the plow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plowboy
1. a boy who leads a plow team [n -BOYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plowboy
Literary usage of Plowboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Ladder Book: A School Reader by Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens (1913)
"WELLINGTON AND THE plowboy MEN who hunt foxes often do great damage to the farmers'
crops, by riding over the fields on horseback. ..."
2. Music (1901)
"He brings us back to the plowboy for solid proof that music can exist without
harmony. ... The cases are parallel; the plowboy is deaf "in spots," as Peter ..."
3. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1793)
"Mr. Kirwan's bc plowboy, by Farmer — 1 1 Mr. G. Hamilton's gr. c. ... Trial — —
4 dil" Maze and plowboy ran three heats; plowboy carne in ..."
4. Awake! America: Object Lessons and Warnings by William Temple Hornaday, American Defense Society (1918)
"THE HAPPY plowboy " The happy plowboy was a figure of humble virtue dating from
the eighteenth century, a period of indescribably wicked conservatism and ..."
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