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n. - A guy who prepares soil for planting.

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Usage examples (37)
  • Leftover pasta, vegetable and beef stir fry, ploughman is a favourite (meat, cheese, hard boiled egg, chutney & bread).
  • Your ploughman was a little too greedy for land, it seems.
  • One of the most popular lunches in Great Britain is called a ploughman's lunch.
  • The artisan depends on his labour alone, he is a free man while the ploughman is a slave; for the latter depends on his field where the crops may be destroyed by others.
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