Usually means: Young farm worker; assists ploughing.
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  1. ploughboy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ploughboy: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ploughboy: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ploughboy, ploughboy: Wordnik
  5. ploughboy: Wiktionary
  6. ploughboy: Dictionary.com
  7. Ploughboy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. ploughboy: Rhymezone
  9. Ploughboy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. ploughboy: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ploughboy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. ploughboy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (historical) A boy who directed the animals that pulled a plough.

Similar:
plowboy, ploughperson, ploughman, plough-man, plow jockey, plough jockey, pot boy, ploughman's, potboy, pieboy, more...

Opposite:
ploughman, farmer, agricultural worker

Types:
farmer, rancher, reaper, planter, tiller, harvester, cultivator, more...

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Similar:
plowboy, ploughperson, ploughman, plough-man, plow jockey, plough jockey, pot boy, ploughman's, potboy, pieboy, more...

Opposite:
ploughman, farmer, agricultural worker

Types:
farmer, rancher, reaper, planter, tiller, harvester, cultivator, more...



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