husbandry
nounEtymology
From Middle English hus-bō̆ndrī, hus-bō̆ndrīe, husbanderi, husbonderie, housbondrye, housebondrie (“household management, housekeeping; household duties; economy, skilful management, thrift; farm management, agriculture, farming; cultivation; household articles; husbands collectively”), from hǒus-bō̆nd, hǒus-bō̆nde (“male spouse, husband; master of a house; male head of a household; man having charge of something, household manager; (figuratively) host, inhabitant, resident; bondsman, villein; farmer, husbandman”) (see further at husband) + -rīe (suffix forming nouns collectively denoting members or practitioners of a craft or profession). By surface analysis, husband + -ry.
- inherited from hus-bondri
Definitions
The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer
The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- On grain farms, it is considered good economy to keep one sheep for every acre of cleared land which the farm contains; on those where mixed husbandry is practiced, two; and on those exclusively devoted to sheep, three.
The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- There's Husbandry in Heauen, / Their Candles are all out: […]
- As to Perſons of Quality, they give Security to appropriate a certain Sum for each Child, ſuitable to their Condition; and theſe Funds are always managed with good Husbandry and the moſt exact Juſtice.
Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
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Agricultural or cultivated land.
Techniques of animal care.
The neighborhood
- neighboranimal husbandry
- neighborconvertible husbandry
- neighborhusband
- neighborhusband and wife
- neighborhusbanded
- neighborhusbandless
- neighborhusbandly
- neighborhusbandman
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for husbandry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA