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Definition of Husbanding
1. husband [v] - See also: husband
Lexicographical Neighbors of Husbanding
Literary usage of Husbanding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... husbanding (\» revenues, repairing and extending the "Id Durham College
buildings, and averting sny serious disasters at the Elizabethan visitations of ..."
2. The Value of Organized Speculation by Harrison Hardy Brace (1913)
"The husbanding of Resources Among the complementary advantages of greater stability
in prices afforded by speculation is that of the husbanding of resources ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"It becomes necessary to inquire into the means of husbanding the water-supply.
That supply can be derived only from three sources—(i) Local rainfall; ..."
4. Conservation by Sanitation: Air and Water Supply, Disposal of Waste by Ellen Henrietta Richards (1911)
"Protection of water supplies as a conservation of natural resources means (1)
Clean soil and prevention of fouling; (2) husbanding rainfall by storage; ..."
5. Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1906)
"CHAPTER XXXI THE husbanding OF WATER ^I^IIAT the canals and oases are of artificial
origin is thus suggested by their very look; when we come to go further ..."
6. Recollections of a Long Life, 1829-1915 by Isaac Stephenson (1915)
"... War — Beginnings of the lumbering industry — Masts for the Royal Navy — Ton
timber — Disappearance of the forests — Necessity for husbanding resources. ..."
7. The Fertility of the Land: A Summary Sketch of the Relationship of Farm by Isaac Phillips Roberts (1898)
"husbanding THE MINERAL PLANT - FOODS. The problem which should first arrest the
attention of the husbandman is, how much phosphoric ..."
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