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
Example Sentences
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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
Railroads, anticipating that the husbandman finally would yield to habit, lined their sidings throughout the wheat belt with empty freight cars to carry the grain to terminal markets.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is described in the records an husbandman.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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
The Farm Board prepared plans for "drought loans" to carry husbandmen over until next year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defeated in politics, he went exploring through South America, where he hit upon the idea of establishing a colony of U. S. husbandmen in Bolivia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the claims of Grain Corp. officials that this organization was going forward satisfactorily, there were new evidences last week that many husbandmen, always individualistic, were hostile to such groups.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let the earth mourn, because corn hath become miserable, and wine been dried up, oil diminished, and husbandmen withered away.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
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