Meaning

1 senses
  1. A man who plows land with a plow.

    A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen.

    Pflüger, Egger

    па́харьpáxarʹ

    ора́чoráč, плугата́рpluhatár, ра́та́йrátáj

    a male man who plows

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The rats eat the best of the lazy plowman.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
male plower:
Русский
By meaning 1
male plower:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
male plower:

Origin

From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plow + man. Compare Middle

From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plow + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman.

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Forms

plural: plowmen
Singularplowman
Pluralplowmen

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a male man who plows:ploughman

Word family

5 related words

See also

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