Definition of peasant

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Peasant (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries..

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Peasant :: Peasant (a.) Rustic, rural..
Pumpernickel :: Pumpernickel (n.) A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing..
Boor :: Boor (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer..
Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.
Sabot :: Sabot (n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries..
Hind :: Hind (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
Poteen :: Poteen (n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry..
Banshie :: Banshie (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house..
Peasantry :: Peasantry (n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics..
Jacquerie :: "Jacquerie (n.) The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants..
Camisard :: Camisard (n.) One of the French Protestant insurgents who rebelled against Louis XIV, after the revocation of the edict of Nates; -- so called from the peasant's smock (camise) which they wore..
Pauperize :: Pauperize (v. t.) To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry..
Hoddengray :: Hoddengray (a.) Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants..
Peasantly :: Peasantly (a.) Peasantlike.
Ryot :: Ryot (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.
Carlot :: Carlot (n.) A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman.
Ranchero :: Ranchero (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
Peasant :: Peasant (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries..
Zampogna :: Zampogna (n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
Peasantry :: Peasantry (n.) Rusticity; coarseness.
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