peasants

NOUN

farmer

Synonyms

STRONGEST

laborer sharecropper

STRONG

boor bumpkin cropper farmhand hayseed hick peon planter provincial rube rustic serf villein

WEAK

countryman/woman hired hand

Example Sentences

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During the fall and winter a large proportion of the gullets of cattle that are slaughtered are found to be infested with warbles, and are known as grubby gullets or weasands in the packing houses.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry