plower

See also: Plower

English

Alternative forms

• plougher (British)

Etymology

plow +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

plower (plural plowers)

1. One who plows; one who works land with a plow.

   Only plowers can expect to become harvesters.

   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:

     We have referred to the Bull many times, both in his astronomical aspect as pioneer of the Spring-Sun, and in his more direct rôle as plougher of the fields[.]

Related terms

• plowboy
• plowman
• plowshare
• plowwoman

Translations

one who plows

• Assamese: হালোৱা (halüa)
• Dutch: ploeger (nl) m
• Finnish: kyntäjä (fi)
• French: laboureur (fr) m
• German: Pflüger m, Pflügerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀροτήρ m (arotḗr)

• Latin: arātor m, arātrix f
• Ottoman Turkish: صبانجی (sabancı)
• Polish: oracz (pl) m
• Russian: па́харь (ru) m (páxarʹ)
• Turkish: sabancı (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) plaudan (vo), (♂) hiplaudan, (♀) jiplaudan

Anagrams

• Perlow, Wolper, replow