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small holding

small holding is the alternative form of smallholding.

Meaning of smallholding

Noun

smallholding (plural smallholdings)

  1. A small farm.
  2. The owning of such a farm.
  3. (US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less).
    • […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8

Forms of small holding

pluralsmall holdings

Questions about small holding

What is small holding the alternative form of?
Small holding is the alternative form of smallholding.

Words near small holding in the dictionary

  1. small hand
  2. small hat
  3. small hats
  4. small heath
  5. small heaths
  6. small holding
  7. small holdings
  8. small hours
  9. Small Hythe
  10. small icosihemidodecahedron
  11. small icosihemidodecahedrons

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