What does land-holder mean?

land-holder

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Frequency: 4.17 in modern English

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"Many of the noble land-holders in Sleſwick and Holſtein, have the power of life and death."
"[…] that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great land-holder of the parish, by every creature travelling the road; […]"
"The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders."

land-holders (plural)

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