Etymology

runholder

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Today it means: A person who leases or owns a run (“rural landholding for farming”), especially one for raising sheep. Full definition →

First used 19th c.
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The story

From run (“rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep”) + holder. Run (noun) is derived from run (“(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) to allow (cattle, sheep, etc.) to graze and move freely on land; to raise (livestock)”, verb).

First known use, by meaning

  • from 19th c. A person who leases or owns a run (“rural landholding for farming”), especially one for raising sheep.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.