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ploughman

Middle English plowman

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Middle English · inherited fromplowman
English todayploughman

From Middle English plowman, ploghmon, plouȝman, equivalent to plough + man. Compare Middle Dutch ploechman.

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.