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plougher, plower|ˈplaʊə(r)|
[f. plough v. + -er1. In ON. plógari, LG. ploger, Du. ploeger, Ger. pflüger.]
One who ploughs; a ploughman. Also in transf. and fig. senses.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 10 Parchemente makers, skynners, and plowers. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxviii. [cxxix.] 3 The plowers plowed vpon my backe, & made longe forowes. 1548–9Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 17 Now I shal tel you who be the plowers. 1791Cowper Iliad xviii. 685 Ploughers not few, There driving to and fro their sturdy teems. 1869Daily News 30 Aug., The ploughers of dangerous seas, or the occupiers of troubled frontiers. 1880Dorothy 34 Now was the autumn come, and ploughers went forth to their ploughing.
b. Comb. † ˈplougher-band, some part of the harness of a plough.
1404Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 398, iij plogherbandis. |