ploughwrights

Updated: July 31, 2026

Without the assistance of some artificers, indeed, the cultivation of land cannot be carried on, but with great inconveniency and continual interruption. Smiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and ploughwrights, masons and bricklayers, tanners, shoemakers, and tailors, are people whose service the farmer has frequent occasion for.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations