Dwarf-holder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dwarf-holder is a noun meaning A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
Meaning
A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
Example Sentences
It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers.
This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land. The world of the Halesowen dwarf-holders was terrible.
The fund would consist of land confiscated from all owners, individual and institutional, who, according to the new bill, held more than was socially acceptable; the confiscated land would be redistributed amongst the landless and the dwarf-holders.
Word Forms
- dwarf-holders
- dwarfholder
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include smallholder, pauper, bywoner, beggar, peasantry, slumdweller.
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