metayer

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French métayer. === Noun === metayer (plural metayers) (French and Italian agriculture) One who cultivates land for a share (usually half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord. ==== Related terms ==== metayage ==== See also ==== sharecropper === References === “metayer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.