Husbandman vs Horseman - What's the difference?
husbandman | horseman |
a person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer
* 1606' The xviii day of May in the fourth yeare of the Raigne of the kinge most excellent Monarche and in the year of our lord god 1606 I Thomas Knages of Lythe within the county of york '''husbandman sicke in body but whole in mynde and in perfect remembrance praised be to god do make and ordayne this my last will and testament in manner and forme following . . - ''The last will and testament of Thomas Knages (1533-1606)
* 1684' Thomas Tusser, born at Riven-hall, was successively a Musician, School-master, Serving-man, and a Speculative '''Husbandman ; - ''Anglorum Speculum: Or The Worthies of England, in Church and State - Thomas Fuller
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVII, ''The beginnings
* 1844' The '''husbandman must labour before he receives the fruits - ''Works ... - Jean Calvin
A man who rides a horse.
A soldier on horseback.
A man skilled in horsemanship.
(UK, agriculture, obsolete) A man in charge of work horses.
A swift-running land crab of the genus , living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies.
A West Indian fish of the genus ).
As nouns the difference between husbandman and horseman
is that husbandman is a person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer while horseman is a man who rides a horse.husbandman
English
Noun
(husbandmen)- Valiant Wisdom tilling and draining; escorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owlish and vulturish and many other forms of Folly; — the valiant husbandman assiduously tilling; the blind greedy enemy too assiduously sowing tares!