earmann.
An editorial misreading of the plural of heaman ‘villager, churl’ [ < heme n. + man n.1] , as though showing a form of earman ‘cultivator’ [ < ear v.1 + man n.1]
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman
earthlingOE
ploughman1223
earmana1250
ploughswain1296
earera1382
plougher?1518
balker1549
scratcher1557
bawker1591
plough-jogger1600
plough-jobber1667
plough woman1783
tailsman1867
a1250 (?c1200) in O. Cockayne Hali Meidenhad (1866) 47 All swuch as weren ear ha Gulten his earste hearmen [1922 ed. heamen].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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