Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A farmer.
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- noun informal an
agricultural labourer orfarmer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who operates a farm
Etymologies
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Examples
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Review of the sodbuster and swampbuster provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 and drought conditions in Minnesota and upper Midwest: Hearing before ... second session, June 24, 1988, Moorhead, MN by United States.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Water crisis in Iraq brings failed crops, sandstorms and scorched earth 2008
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With the stoicism of a sodbuster and the optimism of youth, Tirrel isn't about to bail out.
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Here one could strike a sodbuster and circle a section of land without more obstacles than a few buffalo chips.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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“A goddamn sodbuster can never be dead enough to suit me.”
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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“A goddamn sodbuster can never be dead enough to suit me.”
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985
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"A goddamn sodbuster can never be dead enough to suit me."
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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"A goddamn sodbuster can never be dead enough to suit me."
Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985
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Every day in Calgary, I went about my business, never knowing who was a sodbuster transplant.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Patricia Dawn Robertson 2011
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Most intelligent cities would see a better way and leaders like Mark Scott would be run out of town. sodbuster:
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Most intelligent cities would see a better way and leaders like Mark Scott would be run out of town. sodbuster:
minouchette commented on the word sodbuster
an undertaker
October 8, 2010