ploughmen

Soil-turning agricultural workers

Ploughmen is the plural of ploughman—someone who operates a plough, the implement that turns soil for planting.

The word evokes agricultural labor before mechanization.

A ploughman's lunch is a British pub meal of bread, cheese, and pickle, supposedly what a farm laborer would eat in the field.

farming

furrow

Narrow trench in earth

crop · cultivation · oxen · seedbed · plowshare · husbandry · grain · scythe · reaper · pasture

soil

furrow

Narrow trench in earth

  • loamFertile soil mixture
  • clayMoldable earth for ceramics
  • siltWaterborne earth particles

topsoil · fertile · humus · compost · manure · terroir · clod · earth · fallow · arable

labor

toil

Strenuous, prolonged effort

  • sweatMoisture from skin pores
  • dawnDay's first glow
  • duskDimming after sundown

calloused · endurance · seasonal · yoking · trudging · backbreaking · peasant · rustic · agrarian · workingman

british

lunch

Midday meal

  • cheeseFermented milk solid
  • pickleVinegar-preserved vegetable
  • breadLeavened flour product

pub · crusty · chutney · onion · ale · cheddar · platter · farmhouse · rustic

Opposites
agricultural task/season

ploughmenharvesters

Those who gather crops

reapers · gleaners · threshers · haymakers · gatherers

relationship to land

ploughmenlandlords

Rental property owners

landowners · gentry · squires · aristocrats · nobility

urban vs. rural occupation

ploughmenfactory workers

Employees in manufacturing facilities

townsmen · city dwellers · urbanites · merchants · clerks

Phrases
Family

ploughman

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G