A man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp.…

Scottish. Originally: the proprietor of a small piece of land forming a portion of a larger piece which has been broken up, as by distribution…

Scottish. The owner or tenant of a property, typically a small estate or farm. Usually with of and the name of the estate or farm. Now historical and…

A landed proprietor, (country) ‘squire’. archaic.

A small landowner or capitalist; a person working or producing on a small scale; a small craftsman or tradesman; a local man available to do light…

English regional (chiefly northern and East Anglian). The owner of a small landed estate; a yeoman. Cf. estatesman, n. Now chiefly historical.