feuar
nounUK /ˈfjuːə/ · US /ˈfjuəɹ/
Etymology Borrowed from Scots feuar. By surface analysis, feu + -ar.
1
Law, Property Scotland, Historical One who holds a feu.
- These out-field spots were selected by any feuar at his own choice, amongst the sheep-walks and hills which were always annexed to the Township1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
- In 1835 he cleared the green by giving his sixty tenants, or feuars, land behind their cottages[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4:
- Related terms
- fiar