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

To many a husbandman this seemed a long and risky way round to the "cheap money" he had been promised.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lo! the husbandman reaping, How through his veins goes the life current leaping!

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various