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

Railroads, anticipating that the husbandman finally would yield to habit, lined their sidings throughout the wheat belt with empty freight cars to carry the grain to terminal markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

A thrifty husbandman was more or less dependent for the results of his work on his neighbours, who very likely were not thrifty.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul