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Agricultural labourer

noun
1.
A person who tills the soil for a living.  Synonym: agricultural laborer.






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"Agricultural labourer" Quotes from Famous Books



... limited powers of expression. A harmless, humble labouring man would come with a request—to be allowed to 'break bread'. It was only by the use of strong leading questions that he could be induced to mention Christ as the ground of his trust at all. I recollect an elderly agricultural labourer being closeted for a long time with my Father, who came out at last, in a sort of dazed condition, and replied to our inquiries,—with a shrug of his shoulders as he said it,—'I was obliged to put the Name and Blood and Work of Jesus into his very mouth. It is true that he assented cordially ...
— Father and Son • Edmund Gosse

... with scrupulous neatness, and furnished by no means badly. Nearly all have ample kitchen accommodation, fair beds, and an equipment of glass, china, and crockery, which shows how cheap and good are the necessaries of life in England. The well-to-do agricultural labourer and his wife, whose children are out in the world, the village artisans, small tradesfolk, and "retired" couples are the owners or occupiers, and now let their rooms at from L1 to L1 10s. per week, from June till the middle of September. The results are good in every ...
— The Naturalist on the Thames • C. J. Cornish



Words linked to "Agricultural labourer" :   peasant, sharecropper, jack, sharecrop farmer, laborer, manual laborer, labourer, cropper



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