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

Between President Coolidge and Mr. Wallace all harmony existed, despite the fact that Mr. Wallace, ever the husbandman, did not share the President's disapproval of the Haugen-McNary bill for farm relief.

From Time Magazine Archive

And what of definite information this good husbandman possessed about the long-eared beast of burden would fill a volume of considerable size.

From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch