plowmen
Soil-turning farm workers
Plowmen is the plural of plowman—a person who operates a plow, the farming implement that turns soil for planting.
The word evokes traditional agriculture before mechanization, when farmers walked behind horse-drawn plows: The plowmen worked the fields from dawn.
Figuratively, a plowman represents honest rural labor.
Narrow trench in earth
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
- ploughshareTilling blade component
- harrowToothed soil-breaking implement
- cultivatorSoil-turning implement
seedbed · sod · tillage · discing · no-till · soil · share · mouldboard
Castrated male cattle
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- yokeCrosspiece binding draft animals
- draughtCurrent of air
- reinsBit-attached steering straps
team · harness · traces · goad · whip · mule · bullock · shire
furrow
Narrow trench in earth
- moldboardCurved blade turning earth
- ploughshareTilling blade component
- harrowToothed soil-breaking implement
cultivator · seedbed · sod · tillage · discing · no-till · soil · share · mouldboard · ridge
oxen
Castrated male cattle
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- yokeCrosspiece binding draft animals
- draughtCurrent of air
reins · team · harness · traces · goad · whip · mule · bullock · shire
harvest
Gathering mature crops
threshing · winnowing · scythe · sickle · reaper · binder · sheaves · gleaning · stubble · planting
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
endurance · effort · exertion · fatigue · backbreaking · calluses · physical · strenuous · weariness · fieldwork
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
plowmenlandlords
Rental property owners
landowners · landed gentry · lords of the manor · tenant farmers · overseers
plowmencity dwellers
People living in metropolises
factory workers · office workers · urbanites · clerks · merchants
- plowman's lunchBritish cold pub platter