plowman

noun

Definition of plowmannext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plowman
  1. farmer
  2. harvester
  3. cultivator
  4. reaper
  5. farmhand
  6. planter
  7. grower
  8. agriculturist
Noun
  • Hemp farmers, manufacturers, and reform activists argue the ban is an overreach that will wipe out thousands of businesses and deny consumers legal access to hemp products in prohibition states.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Across North America, in places such as Illinois, Iowa and Texas, farmers are busy growing the crops the world depends on for food, fuel and fiber.
    — Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
Definition of farmer
Noun
  • The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • The harvester must have harvested oysters during the 2025-26 season, with proof in harvest reports.
    — JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 18 May 2026
Definition of harvester
Noun
  • The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
    — Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Tabar Gifford is a master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens.
    — Mallory Carra, The Spruce, 14 June 2026
Definition of cultivator
Noun
  • In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
  • At the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, American revolvers and reapers with swappable parts stunned international observers.
    — Guru Madhavan, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2026
Definition of reaper
Noun
  • Tony Martinez as Pepino Garcia Tony Martinez portrayed Pepino, the McCoys’ farmhand who often served as comic relief.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
Definition of farmhand
Noun
  • Decorate plastic containers and use them as planters or mail drop zones.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, The Spruce, 10 July 2026
  • Surveillance footage shows the woman drive up to the front of the shop and pull all four coleus plants from their planters with her hands.
    — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Definition of planter
Noun
  • Legal cannabis growers, meanwhile, continue to struggle under the weight of low prices for their products and, according to industry advocates, crushingly high state taxes and compliance costs.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
  • For some growers, the recent heat also has shortened the harvest window for certain specialty crops.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of grower
Noun
  • Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
Definition of agriculturist

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