ploughboy

Thân thiện

A ploughboy guides the oxen across the freshly turned field.

Definition

Noun: 1. A boy who guides the animals pulling a plough: Historically, a young male worker whose job was to walk beside and direct the team of horses or oxen pulling a plough across a field.

Usage

The term is used to refer to a specific historical occupation in agriculture. It describes a child laborer, typically in pre-industrial or early industrial farming.

Examples: * The ploughboy whistled a tune to encourage the oxen. * In the old painting, a ploughboy follows the horse-drawn plough. * The farmer hired a young ploughboy for the spring planting.

Advanced Usage

• The word can be used metaphorically or poetically to evoke a rustic, pastoral, or bygone era of simple rural life.
  • The poet wrote of the weary ploughboy returning home at dusk.

Variants and Related Words

• Ploughman (noun): An adult man who operates a plough.
• Plough (verb/noun): The primary tool for tilling soil, or the act of using it.

Synonyms

• Farm boy
• Plowboy (US spelling variant)
• Field hand (more general)

Notes on Meaning

• The word is now largely archaic, as modern mechanized farming has eliminated this specific role. It is primarily encountered in historical texts, literature, or discussions of past agricultural practices.
• The spelling plowboy is the standard American English variant.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a boy who leads the animals that draw a plow

Từ đồng nghĩa

• plowboy