Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HUS'BAND-MAN, n.

1. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground; one who labors in tillage. In America, where men generally own the land on which they labor, the proprietor of a farm is also a laborer or husbandman; but the word includes the lessee and the owner.
2. The master of a family. [Not in use in America.] Chaucer.