tenementern.
The holder of a tenement; a lease-holder or tenant. frank-tenementer = freeholder n.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant
kindly tenanta1325
tenant1377
mailer1392
farmer1414
renter1444
takerc1450
fee-farmer1468
lessee1495
mail-man?a1500
tacksman1533
land-tenant1543
rentaller1553
fermerera1572
tenementer1574
mail-payer1597
inholdera1599
feu-farmer1609
leaseholder1858
leaser1877
1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 353 Alexander Dunbar frank tenementar of Cumknok.
1588 in Scott. Notes & Queries Mar. (1890) 184 Robert Erskine, Elder, Frank tenementer of Dun, my grandschir.
1875 A. Smith New Hist. Aberdeenshire II. 724 The holders of the Rawes appear to have been only tenementers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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