Laird
[lєәd]
Definition
(n.) A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown.
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Definition
n. (Scot.) a landed proprietor a landlord.—n. Laird′ship an estate.
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Examples
- In those years the firm of John Laird of Birkenhead began the building of practical iron vessels, and he was followed soon by Sir William Fairbairn at Manchester, and Randolph, Elder & Co. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And so the house remained, and remains (till this day, the 7th of February, 1571,) in the custody of the said Laird of Bargany and of his servants. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Stockton_ (the latter built by the Lairds of Birkenhead and launched in 1837). William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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