runholding
chiefly NZ
noun
The fact of owning or holding the lease to a run.
- Recorded earliest in attributive use..
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Hawke's Bay (New Zealand) Herald.
- beatify
- beating
- beating-up
- beatitude
- Beatle-esque
- Beatlemania
- Beatlemaniac
- Beatles
- Beatles-esque
- Beatlesque
- beat-match
- beat-matching
- beatnik
- beat off
- beat officer
- beat one's breast
- beat one's (or the) meat
- be at one's wits' end
- Beaton, Sir Cecil
- beat (or bang) the drum of (or for)
- be at (or have come to) an end
- beat (or kick) the shit out of
- be at (or on) the receiving end
- beat (or smash) someone to a pulp
- beat (or turn) swords into ploughshares