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haulds

haulds is the plural of hauld.

Meaning of hauld

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

Questions about haulds

What is haulds the plural of?
Haulds is the plural of hauld.

Words near haulds in the dictionary

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

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