ploughboy BrE
plowboy AmE

The plough boy has just come in to report it.

Nevertheless, he liked this good-natured plough boy who knew nothing except horses.

"Plough boy to the White House"

He worked as labourer, plough boy, shepherd, gardener, lime-burner and hedge-planter.

Gifford was sent in turn to work as a plough boy, a ship's boy, student, and cobbler's apprentice.

It is dedicated to St Exupère, a saint of Toulouse who began life in this valley as a plough boy.

He replied " If God spare my life, before very long I shall cause a plough boy to know the scriptures better than you do!"

Dodd was a plough boy from Hackney, London, who made his fortune carrying the city's waste to the country on the barges.

I ain't gunna relocate with these partners - they all be plough boys and dockside scum before they comes to whaling, half-wits and duffers!

Peace: Twenty Years After the War (1871; University of Limerick Armitage Collection, with title Sleeping Plough Boy)

This included the story of how, in 1885, a young plough boy named Charles Walton had met a phantom black dog on his way home from work on several nights in succession.

Flintham is one of the twenty or so places in Nottinghamshire where the local historian Maurice Barley (1909-1991) found evidence that the traditional English Plough Boy's Play, was performed.

He then published several specialty newspapers, including The Plough Boy, a publication which provided information about farming in New York and advocated the creation of local, county and state agricultural societies.

Not much for the future from the 2m 3-y-o hurdle (Class D, 8 ran), the favourite Plough Boy only needing to go round and making most after nobody wanted to go on when the tape was released.

According to Louis Monto, who kept a ship´s log for the Plough Boy, the Franklin received "two balls in the hull and two others in the rigging." Bradshaw, wounded in the fray, had to replace the main and mizzen yards.

Tradition has it that plough boys would take their plays from house to house and perform in exchange for money or gifts, in a similar way to the American custom of Trick-or-treat; some teams pulled a plough and threatened to plough up people's front gardens or path if they did not pay up.