Definition of "plowman" [plow•man]

• A man who plows. (noun)
• A farmer or rustic. (noun)

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• "It's snowing again in the New England, and of course the plowman is on his own timetable."
• "My plowman was a young man -- a handsome, high-born-looking youth who came one Sunday evening to arrange terms."
• "Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called."