Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, a headborough; a borsholder.
- noun In some parts of northern England, a person who holds property by burgage tenure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A headborough; a borsholder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
headborough ; aborsholder .
Etymologies
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borough + holder
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