plowman
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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
Mr. Smith's first name is Jefferson, after the man who said that a plowman is wiser than a professor when it comes to essential things.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Little Walder quartered the twin towers of Frey with the brindled boar of his grandmother's House and the plowman of his mother's: Crakehall and Darry, re-spectively.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
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Still, it’s pretty easy to come up with controls to regulate quality through random spot-checks and audits with customer service reps or even plowmen.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2013
Come all you farmers out of the countrey, Carters, plowmen, hedgers, and all, Tom, Dick, and Will, Ralph, Roger, and Humphrey, Leave of your gestures rusticall.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt