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plowman

noun

Definition of plowman

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of plowman More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026 Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps. — Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025 Like many present day comedians and actors, medieval minstrels are believed to have had day jobs as peddlers and plowmen, but performed their theatrical gigs at night. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023 Best of all are Wood’s smooth undulant landscapes with their plowmen and spongy trees and infectious serenity. — New York Times, 10 May 2018 The infamous East Riverside slide can dump 50 feet of concrete-thick debris and has taken the lives of three plowmen—in 1970, 1978, and 1992—as well as a preacher and his two daughters in 1963, and two men and most of their team of mules in 1883. — Leath Tonino, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2017

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Noun

Ladage, a columnist for Farm World, farmer’s wife and presenter, has won the American Women in Communications Clarion Award twice, in addition to writing books for adults and children.

— Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
The story follows a willow tree that forms a deep attachment to a farmer’s daughter before being cut down.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of farmer

Noun

In summary, the researchers created a temperature-sensing system that runs on an infinitesimal amount of electricity drawn from ambient radiation by a dedicated graphene energy harvester.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026
Unfortunately for the harvester ants, this toxin doesn’t even slightly deter horned lizards, who eat the ants in large numbers.

— RJ Mackenzie, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of harvester

Noun

However, the team opted to build a 20 percent larger craft that weighed nearly 20 pounds (9 Kg), heavier than Salvo’s reaper.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026
But when a patient recognizes him from his dangerous past, Brown has eight hours to elude the government, mob hitmen, quack surgeons, and a trail of dead gangsters to somehow beat the reaper.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of reaper

Noun

That includes Fernando Cruz, who mostly pitched well this season but is a non-tender candidate due to a partial tear of his UCL, and Carlos Lagrange, a flamethrowing farmhand whose big league arrival was delayed by a shoulder sprain.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
The cow remained in police custody until another farmhand arrived with a trailer to transport the animal.

— Adam Thompson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of farmhand

Noun

The project also allows vehicle bumpers to extend up to 2 feet over nearby planters.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 11 Nov. 2026
The site is often visited by tourists and is a monument to the past, the history of slavery, and the wealth amassed by cotton planters in Mississippi.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

The platform is designed to let growers and group managers reuse existing farm information and review and update their records each year.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026
As the 2026 harvest winds down, rising production costs and inadequate crop prices are eating into farmers’ income, particularly among Midwest corn and soybean growers, even with a potential record in government subsidies.

— Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

After all, from 1773 to 1775, more than thirty-five thousand agriculturalist peasants made war against Russia, in what is commonly referred to as Pugachev’s Rebellion, after the name of its leader.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026
LaRue was a prominent agriculturalist and state legislator, while his son, Jacob Eugene LaRue, was active in efforts to bring University State Farm, the predecessor to UC Davis, to what was then known as Davisville.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026

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