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English
Etymology
From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.
Noun
grandsire (plural grandsires)
- (archaic) Grandfather.
1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:“I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. "
- Any male ancestor.
- Any of a number of methods of change-ringing on bells.
- (equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather
Usage notes
In the equestrian sense, maternal grandfather is a damsire (i.e. sire of a dam), not a grandsire.