torppari — meaning in English

English meaning

• cotter noun A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
• peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
• tenant noun Someone who pays rent to live in or use a property owned by someone else.

Senses

torppari is used for these senses in English:

• cotter (historical) A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage.
• crofter One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user.
• 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.
• tenant (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.

cotter — full definition

1. noun A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
2. noun A cotter pin.

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.

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