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plowboy

/plou-boi/US // ˈplaʊˌbɔɪ //

犁头男孩,犁地男孩,犁童,犁工

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a boy who leads or guides a team drawing a plow.
    • : a country boy.

Examples

  • He cut off a couple of pounds of raw bacon and put it in my pocket together with a "bait" of Plowboy tobacco.

  • Then he went to bed, and whether from the widow's blessing, or the air of the place, he slept like a plowboy.

  • The plowboy shouted in the sun, and in the purple new- turned furrows flocks of birds hunted for fat worms.

  • There was a plowboy, Dick, who sometimes came into our field to pluck blackberries from the hedge.

  • The faithless Mirabel had broken his engagement, and the plowboy was the herald of misfortune who brought his apology.