Meaning of metayer | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

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

“A majority of the properties are so small as not to afford⟳ a subsistence to the proprietors, of whom, according to some computations, as many as three millions are obliged to eke out their means of support⟳ either by working for hire⟳, or by taking additional land⟳, generally on metayer tenure.”

“A "submerged tenth" of croppers, with a few paupers; forty per cent who are metayers and thirty-nine per cent of semi-metayers and wage-laborers”

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