Bauer — meaning in English
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English meaning
- cage noun A structure of bars or mesh used to enclose and contain an animal or person.
- farmer noun Someone who owns or works land to grow crops or raise livestock.
- pawn verb To leave an item with a pawnbroker as security in exchange for money.
- peasant noun Historically, a small farmer or agricultural laborer, especially one with a low social and economic status.
Senses
Bauer is used for these senses in English:
- Farmer A placename in the United States:
- cage An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- farmer A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.
- pawn (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
- pawn (idiomatic) A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
- 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.
- peasant (pejorative) An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.
cage — full definition
- noun A structure of bars or mesh used to enclose and contain an animal or person.
- verb To shut something or someone inside a cage.
- verb To trap or hold back a person's freedom or creativity, often figuratively.