sharecropper

share·crop·per

noun \-ˌkrä-pər\

Definition of SHARECROPPER

: a tenant farmer especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges

First Known Use of SHARECROPPER

1923

Other Agriculture/Gardening Terms

fallow, graft, heirloom, loam, potash, soilage, swath, tilth, windfall

Rhymes with SHARECROPPER

bebopper, cartopper, clodhopper, eavesdropper, eyedropper, eyepopper, grasshopper, hedgehopper, hip-hopper, improper, job-hopper, joypopper, leafhopper, name-dropper, rockhopper, showstopper, skin-popper, treehopper, woodchopper