What is a "Yeoman's Task?"
The Wolf
What is a Yeoman's Task? Is it a legal term?
Paul Catchpole
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> I can google and define Yeoman.
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> What is a Yeoman's Task? Is it a legal term?
Clerical/administrative task - pushing paper, keeping records.
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...many men choose a wife amid the deft-fingered clerks in preference to
the society misses. The woman clerk has studied the value of
concentration, learned the lesson that incites to work when a burden
bears heavily upon her strength. She knows the word of self- reliance,
and the fine courage that springs from the consciousness that a good
result has been accomplished by a well-directed effort.
~ Clara (Marquise) Lanza 1859–1939 What America Owes to Women,(1893)
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Daniel P. B. Smith
_work_" means "yeoman" in the sense of "a diligent, dependable worker."
(Meaning #4 in the American Heritage Dictionary).
Google Books yields many examples, e.g.
"Wherever the fleets and armies of England have won renown, there
stalwart sons of the Browns have done yeoman's work," Hughes, _Tom
Brown's Schooldays_
"[Raymond Loewy] had a remarkable talent for spotting design trends, for
selecting top-notch designers to do the yeoman's work required to bring
them to reality, and selling their work to the generally conservative
management type who paid the bills."--Thomas E. Bonsall, _More Than They
Promised: The Studebaker Story_
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