Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, one who holds a tack or lease of land from another; a tenant or lessee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Scots Law) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
taxman . - noun Scotland A person who holds a
tack from another; atenant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The largest building, which has a roof thatched of heather with a turf base, is for the tacksman.
Country diary: Newtonmore Ray Collier 2010
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My interest was because a tacksman called John Fraser, 1772 to 1840, used to occupy a house on the site of our house; his roof would have been thatched and almost certain to have been heather over a turf base.
Country diary: Newtonmore Ray Collier 2010
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You were tacksman to Malcolm Grant; he sent ye, did he not?
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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A Laird, a man of wealth and eminence, sends his child, either male or female, to a tacksman, or tenant, to be fostered.
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There was in the inn a _sanctum sanctorum_ where only were allowed the bailies of the burgh, a tacksman of position, perhaps, from the landward part, or the like of the Duke's Chamberlain, who was no bacchanal, but loved the company of honest men in their hours of manumission.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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In a cloak of rough watchet blue he had borrowed from his host and a hat less conspicuous than that he had come in from Stirling, he passed, to such strangers in the locality, for some tacksman of the countryside, or a traveller like themselves.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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Page 308 - missing quotation mark added before This introduction tacksmen or demiwassal changed to tacksman or demiwassal
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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'Cousin,' he would say to such and such a tacksman or demiwassal, 'I told my pantry lads to hand you some claret, but they tell me you like port or punch best.'
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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"So that there is no difference between the former tacksman and his serf except the relative size of their farms?"
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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A recent writer has called attention to the fact that one cause of the emigration was the "tacksman system."
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