husbandman
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
On farms are houses, barns, outbuildings, for which a husbandman must buy bricks, cement, lumber, glass, shingles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above the idol are the following words in Chinese, cut in the stone and gilt, "The divine husbandman and sacred ruler!" and thereafter, "For all ages the instructive teacher."
