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The original ground-breaker, turning dirt into civilization one stubborn furrow at a time.
means A person who guides and operates a plow to turn over soil for farming, traditionally walking behind one drawn by animals.
from A plain compound from Old English: 'plōh,' meaning a plow or a measure of land it could work, joined with 'man.' The 'plow' part has deep Germanic roots and possibly traveled in from a northern or continental source — relatives turn up across the Germanic languages — though its ultimate ancestry is murky. By the medieval period the plowman was such a fixture of life that he stars in Langland's poem 'Piers Plowman' as the very emblem of honest labor.
- Medieval celebrity
- Langland's Piers Plowman starred a peasant as moral hero
- Wordsmith too
- Plowman gave us the words acre and furlong
- Ox required
- Heavy plows needed eight oxen and shared teams
- Surname legacy
- Plowman survives as a real English last name
chaucer's plowman — character in canterbury tales (1387) representing an idealized medieval english laborer
eric bloodaxe plowman — english footballer who played for sunderland in the 1920s-1930s