croppers

It is the fact that we are always colliding with something, always coming unpleasant croppers, that is the exciting thing.

Escape, and Other Essays Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Skilled artisans - "stockingers" and "croppers" - who came to be known collectively as the Luddites saw their livelihoods being threatened by a new class of manufacturer who was driving the Industrial Revolution with the introduction of industrial machines.

BBC News - Home 2011

On the other hand, "croppers" (breeds with large crops) were developed to steal grain from the lord's fields.

5 Chicken 1991

She was full of reminiscences of former "croppers" in the lives of the various members of her family.

Three Margarets Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Many of our rural farming incomes come from 'croppers' who farm other people's large acreage.

cab drollery 2009

Many of our rural farming incomes come from 'croppers' who farm other people's large acreage.

The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics 2009

Share-Croppers share-croppers.com sells envelopes for gardeners who collect and share or sell their seeds.

Green Scene: Decide now where to start as you plan your garden - seed or plant? Joel M. Lerner 2011

Often they think they own a business only to find out that they invested their own funds to merely operate the franchisors business and are the modern equivalent of share croppers.

Sonic's Extra Hour Denied By Aurora City Council 2009

The planters pocketed 90 percent of the AAA benefit payments in 1933 and left their hapless croppers to fend for themselves.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities 2010

Hartshead Ballad poignantly recalls the starvation of the croppers during the industrial revolution, while Atherton Moor, 1643 recreates a battle from the English civil war.

Mabel Ferrett obituary 2011