•a person, male or female, who in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used legerdemain --- clever tricks ---
to deceive others, often for financial gain.
One of the fancymonger's theatrics was called wolf in the breast,
a highly imaginative ploy used by vagrant English women with considerable acting
talent to solicit donations from the gullible. In this macabre ruse, the
woman attempted to convince passersby that a small wolf was gnawing her breast from inside.
[Forgotten English]
•one who works on or operates a farm.
(=a tract of land cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production, raising and breeding of livestock, and the like)
•one who has paid for the right to collect and retain certain revenues or profits
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