Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A peasant living in a cottage.
  • noun The person in charge of the common lands of the parish.

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  • The Nalbund leads naturally to the Ghasswallah, or grass-man, whose sign is a mountain of green stuff, which comes nodding in at the back gate every day upon four emaciated legs.

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

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