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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A great-grandfather.
  • noun (Law) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished.

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