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
A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force.
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
The land is worth nothing without the husbandmen, and it will take the Philippines a long time to recover from the devastating effects of the insurrection of 1896–7 and the American war of subjugation.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
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