tacksman

/ ˈtæksmən /

noun

1. a leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets

Word History and Origins

Origin of tacksman¹

C16: from tack ⁴

Example Sentences

An aquatic Samson, he snaps the meshes like thread, and laughs at the discomfiture of the tacksman, who is dancing like a demoniac on the shore; and no wonder, for nets are expensive, and the rent in that one is wide enough to admit a bullock.

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This lover was Malcolm M'Gregor of Strontian—a warmhearted, high-spirited young man, the son of a neighbouring tacksman, to whom Grace had been long attached, and by whom she was most sincerely and tenderly loved in return.

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My faither had been a tacksman on the estate o' Blackhall; an', as the land was sour an' wat, an' the seasons for awhile backward, he aye contrived—for he was a hard-working, carefu' man—to keep us a' in meat and claith, and to meet wi' the factor.

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Altogether it had the appearance of being the residence of a person of the rank of a small proprietor or tacksman.

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That was Neil, son of Angus Dubh, the tacksman on the old place, one of my best sergeants.

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