A free tenant (specially) in ancient Northumbria, holding by a tenure older than the Norman Conquest, the nature of which was partly military…

Under the feudal system: a type of low-ranking tenant.

= dreng, n.

the tenant of a particular estate.

A tenant who pays a rack rent. Now rare.

In South Asia: (in the Mughal period) a landholder responsible for paying land revenue for an area to the emperor and carrying out certain other…

In Canada: a person who holds real estate subject to an annual rent paid to a seigneur (seigneur, n. b). Cf. roture, n. 1a. Now historical.

a person living in premises under statutory tenancy.

A person who holds land or property on a lease for life (sometimes renewable from generation to generation). Cf. life tenant n. at life, n.…

A tenant of the church.

In Ireland, a tenant living on land of which the resources do not adequately support him.