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dwarf holder

dwarf holder is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of dwarf holder

pluraldwarf holders

Questions about dwarf holder

What is dwarf holder the alternative spelling of?
Dwarf holder is the alternative spelling of dwarf-holder.

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