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odalmen

odalmen is the plural of odalman.

Meaning of odalman

Noun

odalman (plural odalmen)

  1. (historical) A man having odal, or able to share in it by inheritance.
    • 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:
    hauld

Questions about odalmen

What is odalmen the plural of?
Odalmen is the plural of odalman.

Words near odalmen in the dictionary

  1. odalisque
  2. odalisques
  3. odaller
  4. odallers
  5. odalman
  6. odalmen
  7. odals
  8. odanacatib
  9. odango
  10. odas
  11. Odawa

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