Farmers and people who work on farms
bailiff
noun
someone whose job is to look after a farm or land that belongs to someone else
cattleman
noun
someone who owns or looks after cattle
cowboy
noun
a man whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US
cowgirl
noun
a woman whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US
cowhand
noun
someone whose job is to look after cows on a ranch in the US
crofter
noun
someone who lives and works on a croft
farmer
noun
someone who owns a farm or manages it as their job
farmhand
noun
someone whose job is to work outside on a farm
field hand
noun
a farmhand
gaucho
noun
a South American cowboy
gentleman farmer
noun
a rich man who has a farm on his land but who does not need it for his main income
goatherd
noun
someone whose job is to look after goats
grower
noun
a person, company, or place that grows a type of plant or crop
hand
noun
someone who works on a farm
herdsman
noun
someone who herds and looks after a group of animals as their job
hired hand
noun
someone who is hired to work on a farm, especially for a short period of time
jackaroo
noun
a young man who is learning to work on a sheep or cattle farm
land agent
noun
someone whose job is look after a farm or an area of land that belongs to someone else
land girl
noun
a young woman who worked on a farm during the Second World War
milkmaid
noun
an old word meaning ‘a woman whose job is to milk cows’
peasant
noun
someone who works on another person’s farm or on their own small farm. This word is used mainly about people in poor countries or people in history
picker
noun
a person or machine that picks fruit or other crops
planter
noun
someone who owns or is in charge of a plantation
ploughman
noun
a man whose job is to control a plough pulled by a horse or an ox
rancher
noun
someone who owns or manages a ranch, or someone whose job is to work on a ranch
sharecropper
noun
a farmer who grows crops on someone else’s land and receives part of the money earned from selling the crops
shearer
noun
someone whose job is to cut the wool from sheep
shepherd
noun
a man whose job is to look after sheep
shepherdess
noun
a woman whose job is to look after sheep
smallholder
noun
someone who owns a very small farm
stockman
noun
a man whose job is to look after farm animals
swineherd
noun
an old word for someone whose job was to look after pigs
tenant farmer
noun
a farmer who rents land from someone else
yeoman
noun
an old word for a man who owned the land that he worked on
yeomanry
noun
an old word for a group of men who owned the land that they worked on
