Synonyms

1. farming
2. agriculture

Sentence Examples

1. Under this were hung flails, harness, various utensils of husbandry, and nets for fishing in the neighboring river.
2. But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow that is for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.
3. By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives.
4. Among the obvious problems were the four large tractors that were purchased for training students but never delivered to the high schools and the minimal animal husbandry that could be taught because the animals at many schools were exclusively female.
5. 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.
6. As I had little aid from horses or cattle, or hired men or boys, or improved implements of husbandry, I was much slower, and became much more intimate with my beans than usual.
7. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.
8. The next year I did better still, for I spaded up all the land which I required, about a third of an acre, and I learned from the experience of both years, not being in the least awed by many celebrated works on husbandry, Arthur Young among the rest, that if one would live simply and eat only the crop which he raised, and raise no more than he ate, and not exchange it for an insufficient quantity of more luxurious and expensive things, he would need to cultivate only a few rods of ground, and that it would be cheaper to spade up that than to use oxen to plough it, and to select a fresh spot from time to time than to manure the old, and he could do all his necessary farm work as it were with his left hand at odd hours in the summer and thus he would not be tied to an ox, or horse, or cow, or pig, as at present.
9. Those summer days which some of my contemporaries devoted to the fine arts in Boston or Rome, and others to contemplation in India, and others to trade in London or New York, I thus, with the other farmers of New England, devoted to husbandry.
10. His task was to improve their shelter and make sure that the most capable trained the young in hunting and husbandry to guarantee a steady supply of food.