pendiclern.
/ˈpɛndᵻklə/, U.S. /ˈpɛndəklər/, Scottish English /ˈpɛndᵻklər/ Scottish. rare.
The holder of a pendicle; a tenant of a dependent or sublet part of a main estate.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant > inferior
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1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 130 Neither the grant of the extensive domain to the immediate tenant of the Crown,..nor that of the husbandman to the pendicler and cotter, was..absolute and perpetual.
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 357 The parish also abounded with pendiclers, or inferior tenants.
1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. (1887) 41 The neighbouring pendiclers were alarmed, armed, and in motion.
1893 J. Skinner Autobiogr. Metaphysician xxxviii. 202 The antipathy of the large farmers to the pendicler class.
1965 Sc. Mag. Mar. 523 Fowlis Wester was a community of ‘pendiclers’, each with a small piece of land for which rent was paid in labour to the farmer to whose farm the piece of land was ‘appended’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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