dwarf-holder
nounEtymology
From dwarf + holder, by analogy with smallholder. First attested in the 1930s.
Definitions
A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for…
A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence.
- It represented the rural middle classes against the bigger men, especially against their creditors, but it neither represented nor cared for the dwarf-holders, still less the agricultural labourers.
- This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land. The world of the Halesowen dwarf-holders was terrible.
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