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dwarfholder

dwarfholder 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 dwarfholder

pluraldwarfholders

Questions about dwarfholder

What is dwarfholder the alternative spelling of?
Dwarfholder is the alternative spelling of dwarf-holder.

Words near dwarfholder in the dictionary

  1. dwarfesses
  2. dwarfest
  3. dwarfeth
  4. dwarfette
  5. dwarfettes
  6. dwarfholder
  7. dwarfholders
  8. dwarfin
  9. dwarfing
  10. dwarfings
  11. dwarfins

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