Husbandman
A Husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman.
The earliest recorded use of the term dates from the Hebrew bible in the book of Genesis.[1] The sense of husband in this term is that of the "master of house" rather than "married man".
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989
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