TENANCY, TENANT
ADJECTIVES
1759 — TENANT-STEAD occupied by a tenant → Sc.
NOUNS
..19C — TENANTSHIP tenancy → Eng. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
1533 — TAXMAN a tack’s-man; one who holds a tack or lease of land, a water-mill, coal-mines, fishers, tithes, customs, or anything farmed or leased; a lessee; esp. in the Highlands, a middleman who leases directly from the proprietor of the estate a large piece of land which he sublets in small farms; a tenant of a higher class → Sc.
1583 — SUBSETTLE an under-tenant → obs.
1609 — MAIL-MAN one who pays rent; a tenant → Sc.
1724 — MAIL PAYER one liable to pay rent; a tenant → Sc.
1778 — TAKER one who takes a lease of a farm, a mine, etc.; a lessee or tenant
1825 — GERSMAN the tenant of a cottage in the country, who has no land attached to it → Sc.
1841 — NAIF a kindly tenant → Sc. (Bk.)
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