Fullholder

Quick meaning: Fullholder is a noun meaning A freeholder who farms his own land; a yeoman.

Meaning

A freeholder who farms his own land; a yeoman.

Example Sentences

Fullholders' grain rents had remained unchanged since 1727, ranging from 3 to 12 bushels per farm.

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.

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.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include farmer, landowner, smallholder, plotholder, metayer, sharefarmer.

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