Husbandman
[hʌzbәnmәn]
Definition
(n.) The master of a family.
(n.) A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
Typist: Yvette
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Agriculturist, farmer, tiller of the ground, cultivator of the soil.
Typist: Ludwig
Examples
- It was only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of a husbandman,) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- There must be first a husbandman, secondly a builder, thirdly a weaver, to which may be added a cobbler. Plato. The Republic.
- A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry, has some; an artificer or manufacturer has none at all. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Away back in the dark ages, even before the Christian era, a Chinese husbandman, so we are told, made a wonderful discovery--that pork was good to eat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For generations they were blacksmiths and husbandmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry? Plato. The Republic.
- But whether it was advantageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But as husbandmen have less leisure than shepherds, they are not so frequently employed in those pastimes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And, as we said before, under such a constitution the same persons have too many callings--they are husbandmen, tradesmen, warriors, all in one. Plato. The Republic.
- When a nation of mere husbandmen, therefore, goes to war, the whole people cannot take the field together. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Then more husbandmen and more artisans will be required? Plato. The Republic.
- The ordinary pastimes of such husbandmen are the same as those of shepherds, and are in the same manner the images of war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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