husband

aviomies

hoitaa säästäväisesti puhekieltä The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
puhekieltä A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queen), IV.3:

a withered tree, through husbands toyle, / Is often seene full freshly to have florisht(nb..)

the painful husband, ploughing up his ground

He is the neatest husband for curious ordering his domestick and field accommodations.

God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me.

(ux)

The husband and wife are one person in law.

A great bargain also had been(..)the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.

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