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feuar

UK/ˈfjuːə/US/ˈfjuəɹ/

feuar noun: one who holds a feu.

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

  1. (Scotland, historical) One who holds a feu.
    • These out-field spots were selected by any feuar at his own choice, amongst the sheep-walks and hills which were always annexed to the Township1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co....
    • In 1835 he cleared the green by giving his sixty tenants, or feuars, land behind their cottages[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4

Forms of feuar

pluralfeuars

Origin of feuar

Borrowed from Scots feuar. By surface analysis, feu + -ar.

Questions about feuar

What does feuar mean?
Feuar means one who holds a feu.
What part of speech is feuar?
Feuar is a noun.
How do you pronounce feuar?
Feuar is pronounced /ˈfjuːə/ (UK).
What is the plural of feuar?
The plural of feuar is feuars.

Words near feuar in the dictionary

  1. feu duty
  2. feu-de-joie
  3. feu-duties
  4. feu-duty
  5. feuage
  6. feuar
  7. feuars
  8. Feucht
  9. feud
  10. feudal
  11. feudal law

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