(South Africa) A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own.
(South Africa) A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own.
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(South Africa, historical) A member of a class of poor white people who were permitted to inhabit shanties on the property of well-to-do Boers in return for semifeudal payments.
A farmer; one who grows things.
(Newfoundland, slang, derogatory) A rural Newfoundlander.
(India, especially, West Bengal) A sharecropper.
(legal, Scottish land law) Belonging to the farm or croft; as opposed to common.