Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who owns a small landed property and cultivates it himself; a yeoman.
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Examples
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"The deil's in the carline," said Tibb to herself, "because she was the wife of a cock-laird, she thinks herself grander, I trow, than the bower-woman of a lady of that ilk!"
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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“because she was the wife of a cock-laird, she thinks herself grander, I trow, than the bower-woman of a lady of that ilk!”
The Monastery 2008
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