1. yeoman - Noun
2. Yeoman - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlong 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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
Advance Yeoman - The Ballard County Homemakers and Workforce Solutions were the topic of discussion at Ballard County Chamber Breakfast. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
"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. Source: Internet
He is not a peasant but a yeoman, and his tales make no mention of the complaints of the peasants, such as oppressive taxes. Source: Internet