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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        
farmer, granger, husbandman
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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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.
Business Co-opts the Family Kitchen Gathering by Rod Hirsch / Mercer Business
This is a movie about Harvard-educated gunslingers who face off against eastern European sodbusters in an epic struggle for the soul of America.
From hell by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Thus began "The Great Plowup," an era of tremendous success for the nesters and the sodbusters who settled and tamed the prairie, replacing native plants with thirsty wheat and corn.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great ... by Bennu, Devorah / Earth Island Journal
 
 
 
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