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'Cousin,' he would say to such and such a tacksman or demiwassal, 'I told my pantry lads to hand you some claret, but they tell me you like port or punch best.'— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
The tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation.'— Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
The greater their merit, who walk erect in a path which so many find slippery And angling,' said I:--'you object to that also as an amusement, you who, if I understood rightly what passed between you and my late landlord, are yourself a proprietor of fisheries Not a proprietor,' he replied, 'I am only, in copartnery with others, a tacksman or lessee of some valuable salmon-fisheries a little down the coast.— Redgauntlet
"So that there is no difference between the former tacksman and his serf except the relative size of their farms?"— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
CAMPBELL, ----, a tacksman of Mull, v. 332, 340.— Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.
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