Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One whose occupation is husbandry; a farmer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The master of a house; the head of a family.
- noun A farmer; a tiller of the soil; one engaged in agriculture.
- noun A husband of property; an economist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The master of a family.
- noun A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who raises
crops and tendsanimals ; afarmer
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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Or it may be understood of the seed of the word which they preached; God threatens to deny his blessing to the instructions they gave the people, so that their labour shall be lost, as that of the husbandman is when the seed is corrupt; and so it agrees with that threatening
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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The skill of the husbandman is from God, as every good and perfect gift is.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos 5. 1999
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Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
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In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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"I think with you that the life of a husbandman is the most delectable," he wrote on another occasion to the same friend.
George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth
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Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
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