husbandman
noun
a farmer.
husbandmen
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pluralof husbandman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Last week Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board grew explosively irate because husbandmen were slow to substitute wheat for corn feed.
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 men sang as they laboured, and there was as much laughing and joking as if they had been husbandmen working together in the harvest-field, instead of men working for their dear lives.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
