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ˈplough-ˌdriver, ˈplow-
[Cf. Da. plov-driver.]
One who drives the beasts drawing a plough.
1483Cath. Angl. 284/2 A Ploghe dryfer, stigarius. 1552Huloet, Ploughe dryuer, iugarius. 1603Dekker Wonderfull Yeare Wks. (Grosart) I. 115 Those misbeleeuing Pagans, the plough-driuers. 1679O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1881) II. 262 The plow-holder left the plow..the plow-driver at last came to them. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 343 Horses..were herded..on the pasture land, by the boys then employed as plough drivers. |