Meanings
plural odalmen
- historicalA man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
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If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s grandfather must have possessed the land.
1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 272Synonyms: hauld
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
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odalman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odalman
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