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  • noun Plural form of portioner.

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Examples

  • Tracing the Fairbairns still further back, we find several of them occupying the station of "portioners," or small lairds, at Earlston on the Tweed, where the family had been settled since the days of the Solemn League and Covenant.

    Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

  • Tracing the Fairbairns still further back, we find several of them occupying the station of "portioners," or small lairds, at Earlston on the Tweed, where the family had been settled since the days of the Solemn League and Covenant.

    Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

  • As Herodotus tells us (ii. 4) the Egyptians claimed to be the discoverers of the solar year and the portioners of its course into twelve parts.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Six heirs portioners have successively died to make her wealthy.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Cleruchi, literally 'portioners,' Athenians who received land in a conquered country, but remained citizens.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • He had three daughters, who became his heirs-portioners.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • Defences were lodged for the portioners and feuars, and thereafter by the inhabitants, on the ground that, as the Common was a pertinent of a royal burgh, it was indivisible, and the Act for division of commons did not apply.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • I think the portioners were all sold out before he could enter the field, and the fate of these Melrose people has thoroughly emphasized for me the importance of having our South

    An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

  • I recollect in old days these portioners used to make moonlight, flittings and disappear, or they sold off their holdings openly and went to America, meaning the United States.

    An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

  • I did not see the land question as clearly on this 1865 visit, as I did later; but the extinction of the old portioners and the wealth acquired by the moneyed man of

    An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

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