husbandmann.
/ˈhʌzb(ə)n(d)mən/, U.S. /ˈhəzb(ə)n(d)mən/ 1. The male head of a household; = husband n. 1. Also (occasionally): a steward. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > head of family, tribe, or clan > [noun] > head of household
houselordOE
husbandOE
lordOE
goodmanc1275
husbandmanc1330
master1536
man of the house1539
housemaster1593
major-domo1649
house head1864
old baas1882
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 455 Bestes þai brac and bare, In quarters þai hem wrouȝt, Martirs as it ware Þat husbond men had bouȝt.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxiv. 43 Ȝif the housbonde man [L. pater familias] wiste in what houre the theef were to cumme.
c1410 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Harl. 7334) (1885) l. 1768 Syk lay þe housbond man [c1405 Hengwrt goode man, c1415 Corpus Oxf. bonde man] whos þat þe place is.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 35 A howsebonde man in a howse,..a contemplatif man in the chirche.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 683/43 Hic iconimus, husbandman.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 98/26 Ane husband man amang the Sabynis had ane kow.
2. A married man; = husband n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband
churla800
lordeOE
werec893
husbanda1275
mana1325
masterc1325
sovereign1390
maritea1398
husbandman?a1439
goodman?1507
baron1595
spouse1604
husband of one's bosom1611
old man1673
hubby1682
sposo1741
hub1809
master-man1825
pot and pan1900
mister1931
DH1993
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 1333 Husbondmen in soth ar most to blame... I trowe ther wyues may hem inouh suffise.
1439–40 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1439 §28. m. 10 Þei compelled hur to suffre þe solempnytee to be don, she þen beyng with child by hur seide late husbondman.
a1456 (a1426) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 677 (MED) Þeos housbondemen, who-so wolde hem leeve, Koude yif þey dourst telle in audyence What foloweþe þer of wyves to doone offence.
a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 278 (MED) Thei lat lyght be husbondmen..Thei cast hyr loue to yong men.
II. Uses relating to management of a farm or other establishment.
3.
a. A worker who tills and cultivates the soil; a farmer, typically one who works a smallholding. Also English regional (northern) and Scottish: the holder of a husbandland, a manorial tenant. Cf. husband n. 4.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun]
tiliec1000
acremanOE
husbanda1300
husbandmanc1384
farmer1528
breeder1547
farmeress1595
colona1640
agricole1656
georgic1703
agricultor1766
Farmer Giles1770
agriculturer1776
agriculturalist1788
culturist1814
fazendeiro1825
bartoner1832
agriculturist1849
culturalist1866
farmerette1901
dry-land farmer1914
drylander1921
Eurofarmer1957
multiplier1969
pick-your-owner1969
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xx. 1 The kyngdam of heuenes is lic to an husbond man, that wente out..to hyre workemen in to his vyne ȝerd.
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) 215 (MED) I am an hosebonde-mon of þe cuntre; I was wont to lede vitayle To knihtes þat weoren in Batayle.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 6509 In no countre þei ne fond bot husband men þat tilled lond, & werkmen & oþer pedail.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 291 Thomas Jourde of Crofton in Hampeshyre husbandman.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/1 Husbandeman, labourevr de uilage, agricole, paisant.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. 160 If the husbandman apoint to his household one sorte of businesse in winter, and an other in sommer, shall wee..thinke that he swarueth from the righte rule of husbandrie..?
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G2 Be there husbandmen there, & such others as manure and till the ground?
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. iv. f. 73v All quha are inferiour in parentage, are husbandmen (or ȝeomen). And the cro of ane husband man, is saxtene kye.
1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 7 They live principally by Hunting, Fowling, and Fishing: their Wives being the Husbandmen to till the Land, and plant their corn.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 8 An Husband-Man, who was at Plow not far off.
1760 J. Hanway Eight Lett. Vails-giving viii. 59 I do not think that the Domestic in a private livery, is equal in office to a husbandman or a mechanic.
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) I. 237 In the village of Bolden..there were twenty-eight husbandmen, who possessed each a husbandland, with common pasture.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. viii. 179 After..the adoption of turnips, potatoes, and other esculent roots, into field culture, a new era dawned upon the husbandman.
1867 All Year Round 10 Aug. 166/1 The proud superiority of the husbandman, as synonymous with yeoman and freeholder, over the serving man who serves a master for wages.
1885 J. C. Atkinson in Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 363 Proof that..down to the first half of the seventeenth century, the appellation husbandman 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.
1927 Amer. Mercury July 261/2 The climate of the continent has not been injuriously affected as the cry of wild animals has been succeeded by the song of the husbandman.
1987 Ecologist Mar. 90/2 The commitment of the African husbandman to conservation goes back further still.
2003 Oxoniensia 67 81 Apart from the yeomen, husbandmen, shepherds and labourers engaged in agriculture, in the town resided a range of traders dependent on its agricultural base.
b. In figurative contexts.
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1550 R. Hutchinson Image of God xiv. f. xlvii God ceaseth to poure his blessinges vpon the vnfrutefull, for he is a husbandeman.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xxvii. 83 Such as did sowe and plant (as Gods husbandmen) the seeds and roots of grace and truth amongst them.
1688 R. South Serm. (1727) V. ix. 354 The great Husbandman of Souls takes this Course with his spiritual Vines, to add the Pruning-hook of his Judgments to the more gentle Manurings of his Mercy.
1775 T. Ford Gospel Message Illustr. 31 As Labourers (not Loiterers) in the Vineyard, [we are] to plant, water, cultivate, and pray to the heavenly Husbandman, to give the Increase.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. iv. x. 57 We are better husbandmen than you, who sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
1892 B. F. Johnson Beautiful Tree of Life 195 See to it that you are planted in grace, and then let the Divine Husbandman cultivate you in his own way.
1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop i. ii. 30 The Faith planted by the Spanish friars and watered with their blood was not dead; it awaited only the toil of the husbandman.
2014 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 5 Dec. The founding husbandmen of this nation planted the acorns of morality and religious freedom together to sprout the twin oaks buttressing the revolutionary republic.
4. A frugal or thrifty man; = husband n. 6. rare.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > sparing or frugal person
sparerc1440
saver1548
economist1669
husbandman1711
economizer1834
frugalist1864
belt-tightener1944
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 109. ⁋7 He was an Excellent Husbandman, but had resolved not to exceed such a degree of Wealth.
1927 V. L. Parrington Colonial Mind ii. i. 90 He understood how desirable it is to put money in one's purse; so he made a great alliance and proved himself a shrewd husbandman as well as a kind husband.
1991 W. Bergengruen in Bostonia May–June 35/2 The master falconer, as he wrote his will, must have wanted to present himself as the careful and shrewd husbandman he had never been in his life.
Compounds
C1. Appositive, as husbandman farmer, etc.
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1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 324 By the native influences of this age..was formed the husbandman-soldier of Rome, with his rude and stern patriotism.
1912 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 40 149 Those who have been exploiting the soil must give way before the husbandman farmer.
1998 C. W. Brooks Lawyers, Litigation & Eng. Soc. iii. 37 Nearly 30 per cent of all defendants in the Common Pleas in both 1640 and 1750 were described as yeomen or husbandman farmers.
C2.
husbandman's dial n. rare (now historical) the pot marigold, Calendula officinalis.
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1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) ii. xxxi. f. 107 This flower [sc. Marigold] also of certayne, is named the husbande mans Dyall, for that the same soo aptly declareth, the howers of the morning and eueninge, by the openynge, and shuttynge of it.
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth ii. ix. 31 The Marigolde..is of some named the Husband mans Dyall.
1929 T.P.'s Weekly 12 Oct. 708/1 Sun's Spouse, Husbandman's Dial, and the Sun's Bride were other names, due to the fact that it was believed the flower [sc. the marigold] turned its face always in the sun's direction.
2005 R. Binney Love, Luck & Lessons for Life 67 The garden marigold got its nicknames of ‘husbandman's dial’ and ‘summer's bride’ from its purported aphrodisiac properties.
Derivatives
ˈhusbandmanlike adj. and adv.
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?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 8 Along a fruitfull plaine, set all with vines, Which, husbandman-like (though a King) he proines.
1776 M. Peters Agricultura 123 The land has been, husbandman like, cleared from the weeds.
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts 7 25 The work was done in a husbandmanlike manner.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husb. Scotl. i. 238 It is hardly possible, that the ground could be placed in that husbandmanlike condition, by the culture given to the rape crop, as by a naked fallow.
1924 E. L. Heermance Codes of Ethics 16 The Grower agrees..to cultivate, care for and harvest said fruit, in a good and husbandmanlike manner.
2011 P. Bullard Edmund Burke & Art of Rhet. p. viii David Womersley was the most patient and husbandmanlike of doctoral supervisors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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