Dictionary Entry
The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
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Poetry examples for “husbandry”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →literary inheritance, which has its proper value, and will repay a more
assiduous and a finer husbandry.
Read full poem →When he was young he little knew
Of husbandry or tillage;
And now he’s forced to work, though weak,
Read full poem →Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,
Which husbandry in honour might uphold,
Against the stormy gusts of winter's day
Read full poem →For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,
Read full poem →When he was young he little knew
Of husbandry or tillage;
And now he’s forced to work, though weak,