What's the difference between ploughboy and ploughman?
Ploughboy
Definition:
(n.) A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.
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Ploughman
Definition:
(n.) One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman.
(n.) A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
Example Sentences:
(1) My souce on the red carpet said that Savages have refused all interviews, perhaps due to their pain at being earlier mistaken for a Ploughman's platter.
(2) The method complements techniques suggested by Ploughman and Boehnke and by Ott that are based on sequential sampling of genotypes within a pedigree.
(3) A Sunday roast topped with a soup bowl-sized Yorkshire pudding, a hearty ploughman's with ham from the local butcher, and a steak and ale pie that some will cross the island for, are all under a tenner.
(4) They are like scientific botanists; and he who turns over the records of cases of cancer is only a ploughman, but his observations of the properties of the soil may also be useful."