Why this word is great
HUSBANDMAN — [Noun] A person who cultivates the land and raises livestock; a farmer, especially in a historical context. From Middle English husbandman, from husband (in the sense "master of a household, manager of an estate") + man. Unlike a yeoman, a freeholder of higher station and independence, or an agricultural labourer, a wage-worker on another's land, the husbandman occupied the stubborn middle ground: the tenant, the smallholder, the essential pivot of the rural economy. It is the calloused hand feeling for dampness in the soil, the patient mending of a stone wall in a slanting rain, and the evening calculation of grain stores against the remaining winter months—the quiet, unheralded administrator of survival, whose chief crop is continuity itself.