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  • noun Plural form of plowman.

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Examples

  • 4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • John W. Miller/The W.ll Street Journal The U.S. has never come in higher than 12th due to its dearth of committed plowmen.

    Plowing for Gold 2008

  • Austria's plowing association limits plowmen to three world championship appearances.

    In This Field of Dreams, the Gold 2008

  • The dearth of committed plowmen back home means "we usually finish last or next to last," says Dick Pedersen, an Iowa banker who represents the U.S. on the World Plowing Organization's governing board.

    In This Field of Dreams, the Gold 2008

  • At times and in places, peasants were scratching the dismal surfaces with the sort of plows which Abel must have used, when subsoiling was not yet even a dream; and between the plowmen and their ox-teams it seemed a question as to which should loiter longest in the unfinished furrow.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Kochubey continued, “and about your freed plowmen.”

    War and Peace 2003

  • Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

    Jeremiah 14. 1999

  • She might not be able to do all the jobs -- smiths and plowmen needed more strength and bulk than she would ever have -- but at least she knew what they could do, and what they needed in order to be able to do it.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • She might not be able to do all the jobs -- smiths and plowmen needed more strength and bulk than she would ever have -- but at least she knew what they could do, and what they needed in order to be able to do it.

    Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999

  • ¶ And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

    Isaiah 61. 1999

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