dwarf-holder
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.62 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
Example Sentences
- "It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers."
- "The fund would consist of land confiscated from all owners, individual and institutional, who, according to the new bill, held more than was socially acceptable; the confiscated land would be redistributed amongst the landless and the dwarf-holders."
- "This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land. The world of the Halesowen dwarf-holders was terrible."