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Definition of Bywoner
1. Noun. (South Africa) A poor tenant farmer who labours for the owner and does some farming of his own ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bywoner
1. a landless poor white [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bywoner
Literary usage of Bywoner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Africander Land by Archibald Ross Colquhoun (1906)
"In the Transvaal the bywoner problem is no new thing, and many suggestions ...
Another point of pride will prevent the bywoner, however poor, from taking up ..."
2. The New Era in South Africa: With an Examination of the Chinese Labour Question by Violet Rosa Markham (1904)
"The moral status of the bywoner, living as a hanger-on upon the charity of ...
For the first time the bywoner has been placed in a position of economic ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1902)
"The bywoner class (the subtenants on the farm of another), is a recent growth in
the Republics, and, be it said in passing, an ominous and significant one, ..."
4. Transvaal Problems: Some Notes on Current Politics by Lionel Phillips (1905)
"... artillery, or Civil Service, as well as many of the " bywoner " class. The one
lived on his salary, the other by his labour on the farm. ..."
5. Papers on the Political Situation in South Africa, 1885-1895 by Charles Leonard (1903)
"Such a man may become a President; he may vote at elections for all manner of
representatives, though he may be a bywoner (squatter) and only sixteen years ..."
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