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The master of a family. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.

in the country, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.

who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

pon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman.

A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak. The painful husband, plowing up his ground. Hakewill. He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic and field accommodations. Evelyn.

The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food. Spenser.

Obs.] Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. Dryden.

One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay.

Humble; lowly; undistinguished. A simple husbandman in garments gray. Spenser. Clergy and laity, male and female, gentle and simple made the fuel of the same fire. Fuller.

by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. Amos v. 16.

One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

A man who tills the earth; a husbandman. [Obs.] Tusser.