| 释义 |
ˈplough-boy, ˈplow-boy
A boy who leads the team of oxen or horses that draw a plough; hence, a boy of the rustic labouring class.
1569Lanc. Wills (1857) II. 254 To every ploughe boy and other boyes servinge within my house sixe shillinges eighte pence. 1724Watts Logic i. vi. §4 A ploughboy, that has..seen nothing but thatched houses, and his parish church, is naturally led to imagine that thatch belongs to the very nature of a house. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 255 If I do not, by the means of that Grammar, enable any Plough-Boy of sound mind to write English as correctly in one year [etc.]. 1903Spectator 28 Nov. 903/2 The plough⁓boy figures on the prehistoric rock carvings of the Maritime Alps,..using the goad, while the ploughman guides the plough... With the use of horses the ploughboy has disappeared, except where the land is so heavy that he has to lead the extra horse. |