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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A boy who leads or guides a team of animals in plowing.
  • noun A country boy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A boy who drives or guides a team in plowing; hence, a rustic boy; an ignorant country fellow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A boy plower, a boy who plows.
  • noun A knave who helps the plowman by driving the draught animals in front of the plow.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow

Etymologies

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plow +‎ boy

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