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husbandman|ˈhʌzbəndmən|
Pl. -men. Forms: see husband n. (In early use often two words.)
[f. husband n. + man: cf. masterman, merchantman.]
1. A man who tills or cultivates the soil; a farmer. In earlier northern use, app., the holder of a husbandland: cf. husband n. 3.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 6608 Husbonde⁓men þat tyled lond, & werkmen. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 291 Thomas Jourde of Crofton in Hampeshyre husbandman. 1530Palsgr. 233/1 Husbandeman, labourevr de uilage, agricole, paisant. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 44 Be there husbandmen there and such others as manure and till the ground? 1670D. Denton Descr. New York (1845) 7 They live principally by Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing: their Wives being the Husbandmen to till the Land, and plant their corn. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1714) 8 An Husband-Man, who was at Plow not far off. 1828Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 237 In the village of Bolden..there were twenty-eight husbandmen, who possessed each a husbandland, with common pasture. 1834Brit. Husb. I. viii. 179 After..the adoption of turnips, potatoes, and other esculent roots, into field culture, a new era dawned upon the husbandman. 1885J. C. Atkinson in N. & Q. 6th Ser. XII. 363 Proof that..down to the first half of the seventeenth century, the appellation husband⁓man still distinguished the man of the class next below the yeoman, and that he was literally the holder of the orthodox husband-land consisting of two oxgangs.
fig.1641Hinde J. Bruen xxvii. 83 Such as did sowe and plant (as Gods husbandmen) the seeds and roots of grace and truth amongst them. 1838Lytton Alice 174 We are better husbandmen than you who sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
†b. husbandman's dial: the marigold. Obs.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 93 This floure [marigold] also of certaine, is named the Husbandmans Diall, for that the same so aptly declareth the houres of morning and euening, by the opening and shutting of it.
†2. A man who is the head of a household; the ‘goodman’ of the house; the householder: = husband n. 1. Obs.
1382Wyclif Matt. xxiv. 43 Ȝif the housbonde man wiste in what houre the theef were to cumme. 1400–30Chaucer's Sompn. T. 60 (Harl. MS.) Syk lay þe housbond man [6 texts good man, bond man] whos þat þe place is. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 35 A howsebonde man in a howse..a contemplatif man in the chirche.
†b. A married man: = husband n. 2. rare.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. v. (MS. Bodl. 263) lf. 161/1 Husbondmen, in soth, ar most to blame..I trowe ther wyues may hem inouh suffise.
†3. A thrifty man, an economist; = husband n. 5. Obs. rare.
1711Steele Spect. No. 109 ⁋7 He was an excellent Husbandman, but had resolved not to exceed such a Degree of Wealth.
4. Comb., as husbandman-like adj.
1789Trans. Soc. Arts VII. 25 The work was done in a husbandmanlike manner. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 324 The husbandman-soldier of Rome, with his rude and stern partriotism. |