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dwarf-holders

dwarf-holders is the plural of dwarf-holder.

Meaning of dwarf-holder

Noun

dwarf-holder (plural dwarf-holders)

  1. 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.1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 122

Questions about dwarf-holders

What is dwarf-holders the plural of?
Dwarf-holders is the plural of dwarf-holder.

Words near dwarf-holders in the dictionary

  1. dwarf walls
  2. dwarf weasel
  3. dwarf-hill
  4. dwarf-hills
  5. dwarf-holder
  6. dwarf-holders
  7. dwarf-planetary
  8. dwarfage
  9. dwarfages
  10. dwarfdandelion
  11. dwarfdandelions

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