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Ploughboy

noun
1.
A boy who leads the animals that draw a plow.  Synonym: plowboy.






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"Ploughboy" Quotes from Famous Books



... fair life for some new-born things, 'twould seem," said Bush, "and a black one for others; and the good can no more be escaped than the bad. There goes my Matthew in his ploughboy's smock across the fields. 'Tis a good lad and a handsome. Why was he not ...
— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... It is the artistic temperament that lives up to the glories of Nature, and understands the parables; and you need not be a writing poet to have it. There is many a poet who never wrote a line, many a romancist who never contributed to a magazine. The ploughboy whistling behind his team, the gardener lovingly pruning his vines, the angler sitting in the shade of summer trees, even the playgoer craning his neck over the gallery and failing to catch the last words of Hamlet on the stage, may be blessed with something of "the divine afflatus," ...
— The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various



Words linked to "Ploughboy" :   boy, plowboy, male child



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