In old English, a Yeoman was originally a man possessing/working with?
Yeoman their landholding varied. The "Concise Oxford Dictionary" (edited by H.W. & F.G. Fowler, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972 reprint, p. 1516) states that a yeoman was "a person qualified by possessing free land of 40/- (shillings) annual [feudal] value, and who can serve on juries and vote for a Knight of the Shire. He is sometimes described as a small landowner, a farmer of the middle classes". Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, wrote that "a Yeoman would not normally have less than 100 acres" (40 hectares) "and in social status is one step down from the Landed
Yeoman Yeoman A yeoman was a member of a social class in England and the United States. It is also a military term. The term is first recorded c. 1300. Its etymology is unclear. It may be a contraction of Old English "iunge man", meaning "young man" (compare knave, meaning "boy"), but there are alternative suggestions, such as derivations from an unattested "*ġeaman" (a hypothetical cognate of Old Frisian "gaman", from "gea-" "province") meaning "villager; rustic". In early recorded uses, a yeoman was an attendant in a noble household; hence titles such as "Yeoman of the Chamber", "Yeoman of the Crown",