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sodbuster

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sod·bus·ter  (sdbstr)
n. Slang
A farmer.
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Noun1.sodbuster - a person who operates a farmsodbuster - a person who operates a farm        
contadino - an Italian farmer
creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser - someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
apiarist, apiculturist, beekeeper - a farmer who keeps bees for their honey
dairy farmer, dairyman - the owner or manager of a dairy
arboriculturist, tree farmer, forester - someone trained in forestry
plantation owner, planter - the owner or manager of a plantation
rancher - a person who owns or operates a ranch
smallholder - a person owning or renting a smallholding
small farmer - a farmer on a small farm
sower - someone who sows
stock farmer, stock raiser, stockman - farmer who breed or raises livestock
tenant farmer - a farmer who works land owned by someone else
tiller - someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)


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hillbilly, hoosier, jackpine savage, mossback, mountain-boomer, pumpkin-husker, rail-splitter, rube, sodbuster, stump farmer, swamp angel, yahoo, or yokel.
Whether they were adventurous sodbusters scratching out their livelihood on the Great Plains or immigrant families struggling to survive in a three-story walk-up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, the family gathered in the kitchen.
In Penn Warren's All the King's Men sodbuster and schoolteacher Willie Stark starts his odyssey to the statehouse full of high ideals and good intentions, but by the time he moves into the governor's mansion, Stark has sold every ideal and voter down the river.
 
 
 
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