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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plowman \Plow"man\, Ploughman \Plough"man\, noun; pl. {-men}.
1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. --Chaucer. Macaulay.
2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
{Plowman's spikenard} (Bot.), a European composite weed ({Conyza squarrosa}), having fragrant roots. --Dr. Prior.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plowman
noun: a man who plows [syn: {ploughman}, {plower}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "plowman": Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman
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