husbandman
Americannoun
plural
husbandmennoun
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
Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lo! the husbandman reaping, How through his veins goes the life current leaping!
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
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