Meaning Yeoman
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A servant or attendant in a royal or noble household.
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a free man who cultivates his own land On one extreme was the well-to-do yeoman farmer farming his own land. — Reilly, S. A.
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c. 1300, "attendant in a noble household," of unknown origin, perhaps a contraction of Old English iunge man "young man," or from an unrecorded Old English *geaman, equivalent of O [..]
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a man who owns a small estate in land, a gentleman farmer
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 a sheriff's officer.
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yes">  In British history, a farmer cultivating his own land.
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A yeoman was a worker in feudal times who served his lord - not as a menial, but in honourable employ. Later the term came to mean a free man below knights and esquires in wealth, though not necessari [..]
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(n) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch(n) in former times was free and cultivated his own land
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        A lower ranking crew member.
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small, independent farmer who cultivated his own land.
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In late medieval to early modern England a Yeoman was a social class. Today, it refers to a seaman that has mastered an area of expertise. ie. Navigator's Yeoman.
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An officer under the boatswain or gunner of a ship of war, usually charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of their respective stores.
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enlisted rating primarily concerned with administrative duties.
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a sheriff's officer
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An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monar [..]
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