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• One who rents land for tillage on condition of paying the proprietor a certain fixed share, usually one-half of the produce.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

• One who tills the land for a landlord on condition of receiving half the produce.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.