Metayer

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who cultivates land for a share (usually half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.

    "The metayer furnishes his labour, his ignorance, and his good appetite; the proprietor supplying an exhausted soil[…]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

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"The metayer furnishes his labour, his ignorance, and his good appetite; the proprietor supplying an exhausted soil[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from French métayer.

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