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

The economic theory behind this program is that the home-living husbandman raises his own food and feed, patronizes local production plants, reduces his dependence upon extrastate sources of supply.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fugitives met a husbandman, and instructed him to answer any inquiry for them by saying, "They passed whilst I was sowing this corn"; which was actually the case.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward