yeoman
yoh muhn
- n officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
- n in former times was free and cultivated his own land
- Conan O'Brien, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson all did yeoman's work keeping the lights on while their writers were on strike.
- That talent has enabled MNN to get a fast start on harder environmental news, even as it does the yeoman's Web work of aggregating content from other sites.
- He will have done a yeomans job of contributing over the four years, says a close aide.