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A person who operates a farm
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sodbuster
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Wikipedia
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Sodbuster was a program created by Title 12 of the Food Security Act of 1985 designed to discourage the plowing up of erosion-prone grasslands for use as cropland. If such is used for crop production without proper conservation measures as laid out in a ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who operates a farm [syn: farmer , husbandman , granger ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pioneer farmer in a cattle-grazing region," originally in the U.S. West, 1897, from sod (n.1) + agent noun from bust (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) an agricultural labourer or farmer
Usage examples of sodbuster.
The saloon was quiet until a sodbuster came in and started running off his mouth about the tense atmosphere in town.
Tian did not lack for bravery, say thankya, but he was a sodbuster for all that.
Never having seen snow before, not even in hi-rez, it gazed about the white-epauletted shoulders of the coastal depot like a Georgia sodbuster manifesting on a cold escarpment of Olympus Mons.
But the ever westward trend of the sodbuster was only getting started.
Then sodbusters and nesters came and the days of the cattle barons were over.
A shoving match between two grizzled sodbusters broke out on the fringes of the crowd.
Then sodbusters and nesters came and the days of the cattle barons were over.