fullholder

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word fullholder. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word fullholder, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say fullholder in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word fullholder you have here. The definition of the word fullholder will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition offullholder, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Noun

fullholder (plural fullholders)

  1. 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.