fieldling vs peasant

fieldling

noun
  • A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer. 

peasant

noun
  • A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture. 

  • A country person. 

  • A worker unit. 

  • An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person. 

adj
  • Characteristic of or relating to a peasant or peasants; unsophisticated. 

How often have the words fieldling and peasant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )