rare. Also 7 colone. [a. F. colon:—L. colōn-us, f. colĕre to till.] A husbandman.
1606. G. W[oodcocke], trans. Hist. Ivstine, Gg 5 a. His father was a Colone or tenant to the famous Senat Aurelius.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., Democr. to Rdr. (1676), 22/2. To see … a country colone toil and moil.
1808. J. Barlow, Columb., I. 737. To aid the colon’s as the carrier’s toil, To drive the coulter and to fat the soil.
