landman — meaning in English

English meaning

• peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
• tiller noun A handle attached to a boat's rudder, used to steer the boat.

Senses

landman is used for these senses in English:

• peasant A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
• peasant A country person.
• tiller A person who tills; a farmer.

peasant — full definition

1. noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
2. noun Informal and often insulting: an unsophisticated or uncultured person.

tiller — full definition

1. noun A handle attached to a boat's rudder, used to steer the boat.
2. noun A person who tills, or cultivates, land.
3. noun A new shoot growing from the base of a plant.

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