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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..

Zampogna :: Zampogna (n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.

Hoddengray :: Hoddengray (a.) Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants..

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..

Hine :: Hine (n.) A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind.

Ryot :: Ryot (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil.

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..

Obrok :: Obrok (n.) A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate.

Pauperize :: Pauperize (v. t.) To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry..

Middleman :: Middleman (n.) An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry..

Ranchero :: Ranchero (n.) A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

Peasant :: Peasant (a.) Rustic, rural..

Boor :: Boor (n.) A Dutch, German, or Russian peasant; esp. a Dutch colonist in South Africa, Guiana, etc.: a boer..

Peasantry :: Peasantry (n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics..

Peasantlike :: Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Hind :: Hind (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.

Poteen :: Poteen (n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry..

Fellah :: Fellah (n.) A peasant or cultivator of the soil among the Egyptians, Syrians, etc..

Peasantry :: Peasantry (n.) Rusticity; coarseness.

Peasantly :: Peasantly (a.) Peasantlike.

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