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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

My father used to say, 'A good plowman is a good farmer.'

From Time Magazine Archive

He girded himself and knew this would be a conflict that would extend the thresholds of his fear of his father and his cowardice before the plowman who had granted him life.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

And plowmen motivated by pay-per-inch contracts may speed their trucks through slick, snow-covered streets with rash abandon, ignoring black ice and other hard-to-clear road hazards.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013

She served the table for the plowmen and took her own meal in the pantry while she tidied up after they had gone to the fields.

From The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady


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