Plough-Monday, or PLOW-MONDAY, the Monday after Twelfth Day, and termination of the Christmas holidays, when, according to the old usage, the plough should be set to work again. On Plough-Monday ploughmen were wont to drag a plough from door to door, begging money for the usual antics and ruder festivities.
Plough-Monday
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 245
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