English: from Middle English plow ‘plow’, metonymic
occupational name for a plowwright or plowman. In some cases it may
have been a topographic name for someone who lived at the edge of an
area of plowed land.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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