Difference between Churl and Peasant

Churl

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a boorish person; a peasant (Þéodisc Geléafa): a freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall (Shakespearean) ill-mannered lout

Peasant

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A member of the lowly social class which 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.An uncouth, crude or ill-bred person.(strategy games) a worker unit

Example sentence: The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.