land-holder

plural land-holders

1. datedDated form of landholder.

   Many of the noble land-holders in Sleſwick and Holſtein, have the power of life and death.

   [1790], Neville Wyndham, Travels Through Europe. Containing a Geographical, Historical, and Topographical Description of All the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Provinces, in That Civilised, Polished, and Enlightened Quarter of the Globe. […], volume III, London: […] H. D. Symonds, […], page 208

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   […] that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great land-holder of the parish, by every creature travelling the road; […]

   1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 151

   The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.

   1900–1907, Andrew Lang, A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation, Edinburgh; London: W[illiam] Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC