The Collaborative International Dictionary
Husband \Hus"band\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Husbanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Husbanding.]
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To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
For my means, I'll husband them so well, They shall go far.
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To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.]
Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
--Evelyn. To furnish with a husband. [R.]
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Wiktionary
conserved; used economically. v
(en-past of: husband)
Usage examples of "husbanded".
She had husbanded her strength, and when we had run about two-thirds of the race she suddenly sprang forward at full speed, left me behind, and I saw that I had lost.
I reproached her for the way in which she husbanded her wit as far as I was concerned, and M.
What he was supposed to find out was if the boy was willing, whether to be husbanded or kept.
Her father was off to the side, talking animatedly with Anlaf and Archbishop Wulfstan, along with the knights who husbanded the visiting noblewomen.