fullholders

Noun

fullholder (plural fullholders)

1. A freeholder who farms his own land; a yeoman.
   • The few households of fullholders (kmiecie) were well-supplied with servants and with children, the older of whom they could afford to keep at home, even in a married state, rather than sending them out to work as farm servants, as the poorer households did.1998, Tom Scott, The peasantries of Europe, page 183