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

Son of a husbandman, fellow of husbandmen, writer for and teacher of husbandmen, Henry Cantwell Wallace brought to his office a practical and scientific knowledge of agriculture second to none.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sismondi sufficiently sets forth the advantages of this over all other systems of leasing and underletting, as it allows the husbandman a well-being in direct proportion to the thoroughness and persistency of his labors.

From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward