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词汇 sodbuster
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Definition of sodbuster in English:

sodbuster

nounˈsɒdbʌstəˈsädˌbəstər
North American informal
  • A farmer or farm worker who ploughs the land.

    〈北美,非正式〉农夫;种田的农场工人

    he plays a gunfighter turned sodbuster
    the Yankee sodbuster with his plough that broke the plains
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels.
    • From the style of the cowboys and cattlemen, the film's chief antagonists, to the salt-of the-earth sodbusters, the film's look was often inspired by Frederic Remington's work.
    • The alliance of South and West - Georgia planters and Illinois sodbusters - that had dominated American politics since Jefferson's day splintered, then collapsed.
    • Two-Dollar Bill and his gang had arrived in Goatswood, another boom town serving the hundreds of panhandlers and sodbusters coming into the territory to make their fortunes.
    • It was a place for the many cowpunchers, panhandlers, and sodbusters to come in and enjoy themselves.

Definition of sodbuster in US English:

sodbuster

nounˈsädˌbəstər
North American informal
  • A farmer or farm worker who plows the land.

    〈北美,非正式〉农夫;种田的农场工人

    he plays a gunfighter turned sodbuster
    the Yankee sodbuster with his plough that broke the plains
    Example sentencesExamples
    • From the style of the cowboys and cattlemen, the film's chief antagonists, to the salt-of the-earth sodbusters, the film's look was often inspired by Frederic Remington's work.
    • It was a place for the many cowpunchers, panhandlers, and sodbusters to come in and enjoy themselves.
    • The alliance of South and West - Georgia planters and Illinois sodbusters - that had dominated American politics since Jefferson's day splintered, then collapsed.
    • Later, sodbusters would curse the tenacity of the area's gnarled trees and search for arable land elsewhere, leaving the timber to deer and squirrels.
    • Two-Dollar Bill and his gang had arrived in Goatswood, another boom town serving the hundreds of panhandlers and sodbusters coming into the territory to make their fortunes.
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