yeoman
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1. yeoman - Noun
2. Yeoman - Proper noun
Meaning
A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
A servant; a retainer.
A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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Along with his brother Henry, Cromwell had kept a smallholding of chickens and sheep, selling eggs and wool to support himself, his lifestyle resembling that of a yeoman farmer.
Even his pursemaster and yeoman of the wardrobe, John Tennent of Listonschiels, was sent on an errand to England, though he got a frosty reception.
Advance Yeoman - The Ballard County Homemakers and Workforce Solutions were the topic of discussion at Ballard County Chamber Breakfast.
He advocated enfranchising a majority of Virginians, seeking to expand suffrage to include "yeoman farmers" who owned their own land while excluding tenant farmers, city day laborers, vagrants, most Amerindians, and women.
"Free land" referred to Republican opposition to plantation system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land, leaving the yeoman independent farmers the leftovers.
He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes.