fullholder
English
Noun
fullholder (plural fullholders)
- A freeholder who farms his own land; a yeoman.
- 1998, Tom Scott, The peasantries of Europe, page 183:
- The few households of fullholders (kmiecie) were well-supplied with servants and with children, the older of whom they could afford to keep at home, even in a married state, rather than sending them out to work as farm servants, as the poorer households did.
- 2002, William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians, →ISBN, page 320:
- Fullholders' grain rents had remained unchanged since 1727, ranging from 3 to 12 bushels per farm.
- 2015, Ingrid I. Epp, Harvey L. Dyck, & John R. Staples, Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe, →ISBN, page 301:
- Every fullholder should, before these living fences are laid out, plant nursery beds of hawthorn at his hearth-site, in quantities that will eventually provide quite a large number of hawthorn saplings.
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