Noun
tenant farmer (plural tenant farmers)
A person who farms land rented from a landlord.
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university. James Hansen
By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man- some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive- than rule down here over all the breathless dead. Homer
On the basis of this evidence, Scarre and Callow asserted that the "typical witch was the wife or widow of an agricultural labourer or small tenant farmer, and she was well known for a quarrelsome and aggressive nature." Source: Internet
Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter, and her mother was a school teacher. Source: Internet