husbandman
/ˈhʌzbən(d)mən
/noun (plural husbandmen) archaic
A person who cultivates the land; a farmer.Labourers are they who provide us with sustenance, the ploughmen and husbandmen devoted to that alone....
- Most people in Brand are husbandmen and artisans of many a craft, who spend their entire lives within sight of their homes.
- They employ also a great number of manufacturers and tradesmen, and lastly the class of laboring husbandmen.
Origin
Middle English (originally in northern English use denoting the holder of a husbandland, i.e. manorial tenancy): from husband in the obsolete sense 'farmer' + man.