grandsire
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.
Noun edit
grandsire (plural grandsires)
- Grandfather.
- 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:
- “I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. […] "
- Any male ancestor.
- Any of a number of methods of change-ringing on bells.
- (equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather
Usage notes edit
In the equestrian sense, maternal grandfather is a damsire (i.e. sire of a dam), not a grandsire.