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Example sentences from the Web for tacksmanIt therefore requires all the tacksman's authority to prevent a practice so pregnant with danger. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4 (of 10)|John Gibson Lockhart. The tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation.' Life Of Johnson, Volume 5|Boswell The Tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the Laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland|Samuel Johnson Altogether it had the appearance of being the residence of a person of the rank of a small proprietor or tacksman. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland|Various
The land, say they, is let to the Tacksman at sixpence an acre, and by him to the tenant at ten-pence. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland|Samuel Johnson
noun plural -mena leaseholder, esp a tenant in the Highlands who sublets Word Origin for tacksmanC16: from tack 4 Words nearby tacksmantackies, tackle, tackling, tack rag, tack room, tacksman, tack-weld, tack welding, tacky, Tacloban, tacmahack Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |