Husbandman

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A husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer or small landowner. 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".

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  1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989

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