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Definition of Agricultural laborer
1. Noun. A person who tills the soil for a living.
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer
Specialized synonyms: Peasant, Cropper, Sharecrop Farmer, Sharecropper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agricultural Laborer
Literary usage of Agricultural laborer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman (1896)
"The value of the negro as an agricultural laborer becomes impaired. The small
produce of his farm, together with the earnings of his wife and children in ..."
2. Narrative of a Visit to the West Indies: In 1840 and 1841 by George Truman, John Jackson, Thomas B. Longstreth (1844)
"It is quite equal to that paid to the agricultural laborer in Pennsylvania.
Attempts are being successfully made to introduce habits of order and ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Many persons write and speak about the agricultural laborer with not so perfect
a knowledge of his condition as is desirable. They treat him always as a ..."
4. Agricultural Economics by James Ernest Boyle (1921)
"HASBACH, W.: "A History of the English agricultural laborer," London, 1908. 21.
... KEBBEL, TE: "The agricultural laborer." London, 1893. 24. ..."
5. Orations from Homer to William McKinley by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1902)
"That is the origin of the condition of the agricultural laborer in the southwestern
part of England. But now, gentlemen, I want to test the condition of the ..."
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