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ploughwoman

ploughwoman is the alternative spelling of plowwoman.

Meaning of plowwoman

Noun

plowwoman (plural plowwomen)

  1. (US) A female plower, who plows land with a plow.
    • A cereal breeder's farmhands must be good plowmen and plowwomen.

Forms of ploughwoman

pluralploughwomen

Origin of ploughwoman

From plough + woman.

Questions about ploughwoman

What is ploughwoman the alternative spelling of?
Ploughwoman is the alternative spelling of plowwoman.

Words near ploughwoman in the dictionary

  1. ploughstaff
  2. ploughstaffs
  3. ploughtail
  4. ploughtails
  5. ploughwise
  6. ploughwoman
  7. ploughwomen
  8. ploughwright
  9. ploughwrights
  10. ploughzone
  11. ploughzones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ploughwoman (page history and authors); plowwoman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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