Definition of "ploughboy" []

• A boy who directed the animals that pulled a plough (noun)

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• "'As ignorant as a ploughboy,' is a phrase fallen into disuse."
• "Dennis did not mind being called a ploughboy a bit."
• "Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy."