husbandman
Americannoun
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husbandmen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of husbandman
First recorded in 1300–50, husbandman is from the Middle English word husbondeman. See husband, man
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How is it that a husbandman and a seamstress follow a similar occupation?
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
He is not just a husbandman of organically raised animals and crops — he has, he says, affection for animals, for place, for “everything” — but a tragic, muck-stained poet as well.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2016
John Hypper was 'playinge Christenmas games' on Boxing Day 1563 at about 6pm with divers other parishioners of Houghton, Hampshire in the house of Thomas Purdew of Houghton, husbandman.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2011
There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a classic, a relic of Homer's age, no longer a farmer, but a husbandman.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
President Hoover recalled Secretary of Agriculture Hyde from a western trip, announced that the Federal Government would "leave no stone unturned" to give assistance to stricken husbandmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of these hungry citizens were white; had been fairly prosperous husbandmen until last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
John A. Bunnell of the Chicago Board of Trade, demanding action by the Board to protect U. S. husbandmen from alleged Soviet price manipulation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cornfields and vineyards were trampled down in its path, and the terrified husbandmen everywhere fled in dismay.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
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