From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire. <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">grandsires</span>) (archaic) Grandfather. 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle...
<span class="searchmatch">grandsires</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span>...
grandsir (plural grandsirs) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span>....
literally 'third grandfather.' IPA(key): /mupːaːʈːan/ முப்பாட்டன் • (muppāṭṭaṉ) (plural முப்பாட்டர்கள்) grandfather's grandfather; <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span> ancestor...
தாத்தா (tāttā) Coordinate terms: பாட்டி (pāṭṭi), ஆச்சி (ācci) ancestor, <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span> Synonym: முப்பாட்டன் (muppāṭṭaṉ) University of Madras (1924–1936) “பாட்டன்”...
mischief. 1871, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet: But 'twas his <span class="searchmatch">grandsire</span> was talked o', not him; and 'twould play the hangment wi' me doun here...
would call sensational. Their goodies they unpack excitedly, Their Common <span class="searchmatch">Grandsire</span> greet delightedly, With gentle, sympathetic tiddering. When from his tree-top...
page 163: Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his <span class="searchmatch">Grandſire</span>, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies...
days / Have led their children through the mirthful maze, / And the gay <span class="searchmatch">grandſire</span>, ſkill'd in gestic lore, / Has friſk'd beneath the burthen of threeſcore...
play with him any more. 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, “II. A Full Peal of <span class="searchmatch">Grandsire</span> Tripes”, in The Nine Tailors[2], London: Victor Gollancz, published 1975...