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hauld

hauld noun: synonym of odalman.

Noun

hauld (plural haulds)

  1. (historical) Synonym of odalman.
    • If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s...1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 272
    Synonyms:
    odalman

Synonyms of hauld

Forms of hauld

pluralhaulds

Questions about hauld

What does hauld mean?
Hauld means synonym of odalman.
What part of speech is hauld?
Hauld is a noun.
What is the plural of hauld?
The plural of hauld is haulds.

Words near hauld in the dictionary

  1. haulageways
  2. haulback
  3. haulbacks
  4. Haulbowline
  5. Haulbowline Island
  6. hauld
  7. haulds
  8. hauled
  9. hauled around
  10. hauled ass
  11. hauled down

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