plough bullockplow bullockn.

1580 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 122 Fower plow bolockes £6 13 4.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Turnip To my plough bullocks I allow the same quantity of turnips.

1894 Atlanta Constit. 30 Mar. How is the ignorant native cultivator to prove that his plow bullocks died not of cattle disease?

1912 Econ. Jrnl. 22 494 A pair of ordinary plough bullocks costs from Rs. 50 to Rs. 100, but in case of Gujerati and other good strains the price often rules much higher.

1999 Hindu (Nexis) 6 Apr. The daily wage for farm labourers with their own plough bullocks has been hiked from Rs. 55 to Rs. 100.

1762 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 568/2 (note) Plough-Monday... On this day the young men yoke themselves, and draw a plough about with musick, and one or two persons, in antic dresses, like jack-puddings, go from house to house, to gather money to drink... We call them [in Derbyshire] the Plough-Bullocks.

1815 W. Peck Topogr. Acct. Axholme 278 The next day the plough-bullocks, or boggins, go round the town to receive alms at each house.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 177 The men who are called plew-bullocks or plough-bullocks.

1899 A. Nutt in H. Lowerison Field & Folklore 63 Certain players, distinguished by scarlet jackets, and known as plough-bullocks or boggins.

2003 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 13 Jan. 14 The adults..were known as morris dancers, guizers, plough bullocks or mollies as they danced and paraded, wearing strange costumes and with their faces blackened.

1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 68 Plough-bullockers, a name given in this county to the persons who..come round on ‘Plough-Monday’, dressed up in ribbons and women's gear, and dance with untiring agility before the houses of the more opulent, to obtain ‘plough-money’.

1923 E. C. Pulbrook Eng. Country Life xiii. 194 At Whitby, the young men come in to celebrate the Plough Stots as of old, and the Plough Bullockers occasionally drive their decorated plough through the villages of Derbyshire, to the detriment of those who refuse largesse.

2001 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 10 Jan. 6 The annual tour by the Plough Bullockers is a tradition revived 15 years ago and a welcome spectacle in Sharnford, Sapcote and Stoney Stanton.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. ii. 144 Maying, guising, plough-bullocking, morris-dancing, were gone before..Methodism appeared.

1929 Times 7 Jan. 11/3 ‘Plough bullocking’ on the Monday nearest Twelfth Night is still kept up by children in Midland villages not far distant from Haxey [in Lincolnshire].