husbandman
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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
Career: His father Levi, descendant of Nathaniel Dickinson, Massachusetts settler of 1630, migrated to Iowa after the Civil War, bought land at $1 per acre, sold it for $6, became a well-to-do husbandman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The main difference lies in the fact that while in Europe "the lands are already cultivated, or locked up against the cultivator, we have an immensity of land courting the industry of the husbandman."
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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
U. S. husbandmen producing vegetable oils warmed to the idea of Philippine independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Ashford, Kent one day last week, sturdy British husbandmen stood glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of these hungry citizens were white; had been fairly prosperous husbandmen until last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The monks were soon followed by foreign husbandmen, artificers and handicraftsmen, who were encouraged to come to Hungary by reports of the abundance of good land there and the promise of privileges.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
