Definitions for husbandry

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husbandry hus·band·ry

Spelling: [huhz-buh n-dree]

IPA: /ˈhʌz bən dri/

Husbandry is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in husbandry (abdhnrsuy).

Definitions for husbandry

noun

1. the cultivation and production of edible crops or of animals for food; agriculture; farming.
2. the science of raising crops or food animals.
3. careful or thrifty management; frugality, thrift, or conservation.
4. the management of domestic affairs or of resources generally.

Origin of husbandry

First recorded in 1250-1300, husbandry is from the Middle English word housebondrie. See husband, -ry

Examples for husbandry

But may I ask, is the planting of trees a department in the art of husbandry?

Another reference to this process is made in October's husbandry, vol.

Maybe some of my kind have taken on similar 'husbandry' projects.

"husbandry," I began, and her still mending eyebrows crinkled in wonder.

Manufactures and husbandry are similar to those at Timbuctoo.

Now, are not the best husbandmen those who are most devoted to husbandry?

They are experienced with the grim side of husbandry, but they are not inured to it.

Now, just guess what came into the head of one of our husbandry?

The husbandry of the Negritos is the most primitive imaginable.

At what point shall I begin then, Socrates, to revive your recollection of the art of husbandry?