fullholder

plural fullholders

1. A freeholder who farms his own land; a yeoman.

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

   2002, William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians, →ISBN, page 320

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   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.

   1998, Tom Scott, The peasantries of Europe, page 183

   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.

   2015, Ingrid I. Epp, Harvey L. Dyck, John R. Staples, Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe, →ISBN, page 301