plowman
Soil-turning farmer
A plowman is a man who operates a plow, turning soil for planting.
The term evokes agricultural life before mechanization, when farmers walked behind horse-drawn plows: The plowman guided his team across the field at dawn.
The word appears in literary and historical contexts more than contemporary farming.
Narrow trench in earth
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- oxenCastrated male cattle
- yokeCrosspiece binding draft animals
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
tractor · ploughshare · seedbed · harrowing · disking · cultivation · fieldwork · cropland
furrow
Narrow trench in earth
horse-drawn · tractor · ploughshare · seedbed · harrowing · disking · cultivation · fieldwork · cropland · fallow
seed
Embryonic plant capsule
planting · grain · wheat · barley · rye · oats · corn · drill · furrow · germinate
allegory
Symbolic tale with deeper meaning
toil · humble · agrarian · bucolic · idyll · Chaucer · Canterbury Tales · everyman · simplicity
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, hired hand, field hand, farm laborer
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- Old Jobsblacksmith, farrier, wheelwright, chandler, apothecary
- rural jobsfarmer, rancher, shepherd, farmhand, cowherd
- rural peoplefarmer, villagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers
- farmhandsfarmhand, field hand, ranch hand, barn hand, stable hand
plowmanlandlord
Property owner renting out
landowner · lord of the manor · lord · squire · estate owner