pendicler

English

Etymology

pendicle +‎ -er

Noun

pendicler (plural pendiclers)

(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

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