Tacksmen

Word TACKSMEN
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There were farmers, labourers, a banker and at least two tacksmen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It quickly became apparent that this was the regular occasion on which the laird of Castle Leoch dispensed justice to his tacksmen and tenants, hearing cases and settling disputes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The more illustrious of Colum's tacksmen and tenants were housed in the castle proper, while the poorer men-at-arms and cottars set up camp on a fallow field below the stream that fed the castle's loch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Colum doesna travel, so visiting the tenants and tacksmen that canna come to the Gathering-that's left to me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Upon the appearance of Colum's men, Grant's tacksmen had all sprung to their feet, hands upon their swords, and the meeting would likely have resulted in serious bloodshed, had some sharp-eyed lad among the MacKenzies not noted the rather important fact that Ellen MacKenzie was nowhere to be seen among the Grants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That many of the tacksmen, rather than comply with exorbitant demands, had gone off to America, and impoverished the country, by draining it of its wealth; and that their places were filled by a number of poor people, who had lived under them, properly speaking, as servants, paid by a certain proportion of the produce of the lands, though called sub-tenants. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We'd talk, about the tenants and the tacksmen, and how things might be arranged. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

And some of the tacksmen, I should imagine, judging from the horses in the courtyard. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The lass was wed six months ago, to Hugh MacKenzie of Muldaur, one of my tacksmen. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The tacksmen eyed me with a certain amount of reserve, but were all courteous enough-with one exception. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

While he had seemed on the verge of summoning the tacksmen and tenants to march, suddenly he backed off, saying that there was no hurry, after all. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)

The other two were small tacksmen from the neighbourhood of Inneraora -- one Callum Mac-Iain vie Ruarie vie Allan ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Stinchar, in the same district, is also a late river, being seldom worked by the tacksmen till towards the end of April, and even then few of the fish are worth keeping. ❋ Various (N/A)

Page 308 - missing quotation mark added before This introduction tacksmen or demiwassal changed to tacksman or demiwassal ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

At the head of the table the lords and lairds pledged his Lordship in claret, and sometimes champagne; the tacksmen, or demiwassals, drank port or whiskey-punch; tenants, or common husbandmen, refreshed themselves with strong beer; and below the utmost extent of the table, at the door, and sometimes without the door of the hall, you might see a multitude of ❋ Mrs. Thomson (N/A)

The baron-bailie and Neil Campbell, and even the minister, made no ado about their hunger, though they were suffering keenly from it; only the two tacksmen kept up a ceaseless grumbling. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

Sonachan and Ardkinglas and the tacksmen came over to listen, and the man with the want began to weep with a child's surrender. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The tacksmen were chief tenants, often men of wealth and social standing, who held their lands of the proprietors or lords of the soil on long leases and were accustomed to "subset" these lands to undertenants. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The landed proprietors or their chief tenants, the tacksmen, began to ❋ Unknown (1920)

They represented nearly all grades of the population -- tacksmen, farmers and other tenants, and laborers, and covered many gradations of wealth, from the substantial and prosperous chief tenants to the very poor, unable to maintain themselves and their families. ❋ Unknown (1920)

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