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share-crop, v. Chiefly U.S.|ˈʃɛəkrɒp|
Also sharecrop, share crop.
[f. share n.3 + crop v.]
a. intr. To farm on shares (see share n.3 5 d).
b. trans. To grow (a crop) on this system; also transf. So ˈshare-crop n., a crop raised on shares; also attrib.; ˈshare-cropper, one who share-crops; also attrib.; and hence ˈshare-cropped ppl. a.; ˈshare-cropping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
[1867in J. H. Easterby S. Carolina Rice Plantation (1945) 231 This will be cheaper in the end than the contract or share of the crop system.] 1907Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 25 Apr. 1 The ‘share crops’ system is what its name implies, the immigrant being housed and fitted with all the necessaries and then sharing the proceeds of the harvest with the landowner. 1925Annals Amer. Acad. Jan. 61/1 Number of farmers operated by tenants of various kinds (cash, share and share-cash ‘croppers’, standing tenants, etc.) increased about 100,000. 1928J. Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary xxi. 235 The..thing would cost as much as his whole share-crop of cotton would make in five years. 1929L. R. Gottschalk Era French Revolution 33 Most of them had become métayers, who, like our share-croppers, farmed a piece of land for a stipulated portion..of the harvest. 1930Dialect Notes VI. ii. 83 Share-crop, v., to farm ‘on shares’... The word, like the practice, is very common. 1936Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 3 Nov. 1/5 Bridges, who sharecrops for W. G. Gray, Senath attorney, sat in a big chair and poked wood in the fire. 1944Chicago Daily News 2 Dec. 4/6 The Capone gang owned several locals of the hotel and restaurant workers in Chicago, and had Lou Romano share-cropping them. 1945Reader's Digest Nov. 26/1 He found hundreds of blacks who share-cropped cotton. 1945B. A. Botkin Lay My Burden Down 225 That was the beginning of the sharecropping system. 1947Social Forces Dec. 202/1 One hundred Negro sharecropper families on the King and Anderson plantation. 1960H. E. Bates Aspidistra in Babylon 215 A toothless Chinaman..share-cropped vanilla farther up the hill. 1962E. Snow Red China Today (1963) lvi. 427 The ‘well-to-do’ peasants (living at a prosperous share-crop level) resented anything that looked like loss of control over their savings, homes and land. 1970S. L. Barraclough in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. iv. 104 When legalized slavery and forced labor were abolished..various forms of share-cropping took their place. 1973W. McCarthy Detail i. 62 Paul..came from a large, poor, sharecropper family, in the heart of the delta land of Mississippi. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 8/2 A depression time share-cropping family. 1974Evening Herald (Rock Hill, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 13/2 He was born in Greenville County, S.C., and spent his youth helping his father sharecrop. 1976Jrnl. Devel. Econ. III. 345 In this exercise, we limit ourselves in focus to a single sharecropped plot on the fazenda. |