Thesaurus results for PLOWMAN

plowman

noun

as in farmer

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Recent Examples of plowman 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 Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere. —

Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 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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While exercises like deadlifts and rows are effective, Wickham said the most direct way to train support grip is with single- or double-arm farmer’s carries.

— Danielle Zickl, Health, 26 Feb. 2026
The last remaining processor, with plants in Lodi and Oroville, has offered one-year contracts to buy fruit from some of the orchards tied to canceled Del Monte contracts, granting a lifeline of sorts to some of the out-of-luck farmers.

— Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 26 Feb. 2026