You can picture the master of a household — historically the 'house-bound' man who ran the home and managed its land and stores. From that one image two threads run: the man tied to a household by marriage (the husband), and the careful managing of the household's resources (to husband them).
From the word’s history
From Old Norse 'husbondi' = 'hus' (house) + 'bondi' (occupier/owner who dwells there). It first meant the master of a house; from 'man of the house' it narrowed to 'married man', and from 'managing the household well' it gave the verb 'to husband' (use resources carefully).
源自古諾斯語 husbondi，由 hus（房子）＋ bondi（住在那裡、持有那裡的人）組成，原意是「一家之主」。從「家裡的男主人」收窄成「已婚的男人（丈夫）」；又從「把家務、家產打理得好」延伸出動詞 husband（小心運用資源）。兩個意思同根，不是巧合同形。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'husband'
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原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
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Husbandname
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.
husbandnoun/ˈhʌzbənd/
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A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.
- The husband and wife are one person in law.
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A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
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archaicA prudent or frugal manager.
- God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant thereof.
- [S]o I went and fetch’d a good Dram of Rum, and gave him; for I had been ſo good a Husband of my Rum, that I had a great deal left: When he had drank it, I made him take the two Fowling-Pieces, which we always carry’d, and load them with large Swan-Shot, as big as ſmall Piſtol Bullets; then I took four Muſkets, and loaded them with two Slugs, and five ſmall Bullets each; and my two Piſtols I loaded with a Brace of Bullets each; I hung my great Sword as uſual, naked by my Side, and gave Friday his Hatchet.
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datedThe master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
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A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- […] a withered tree, through husbands toyle, Is often seene full freshly to have florisht […]
- The painfull husband plowing up his ground, Shall finde all fret and rust both pikes and shields
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The male of a pair of animals.
- Husband of the Herd
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A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.
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dialectalA polled tree; a pollard.
husbandverb/ˈhʌzbənd/
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To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
- And for my meanes, I'll husband them so well, They shall go farre with little.
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To conserve.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ...I found pens, ink, and paper, and I husbanded them to the utmost; and I shall show that while my ink lasted, I kept things very exact, but after that was gone I could not, for I could not make any ink by any means that I could devise.
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obsoleteTo till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
- Land so trim and rarely husbanded.
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archaicTo provide with a husband.
- Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?
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To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
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