pendicler

English

Etymology

pendicle +‎ -er

Noun

pendicler (plural pendiclers)

1. (Scotland) An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft.
   • 1791, Annual Register:

     [the grant] of the husbandman to the pendicler […] was, in the earliest times of feudality, absolute and perpetual

References

• “pendicler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• red-pencil