What is "orchardists"

Usage examples of "orchardists".

In days of yore the now-vanished orchardists of Cinnarine had planted this hedge-barrier along the outer perimeter of the sandstone Windwall.

Those same orchardists had also constructed the Undermine, and a door was set in the Windwall above the place where the Undermine emerged, but the iron-studded oaken beams of that door had long ago been penetrated and sundered and replaced by a weaving of living thorns, so that now no sign of its erstwhile existence remained.

Of those few Feorhkind folk who had been granted the right to dwell there, some were ancient families, the descendants of generations of islanders: fisher-folk, farmers, and orchardists who for centuries had paid their tithes in services and goods or in gems pried from the gravels and crannies of fissures in the mountain walls.