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land-hláford

  • noun [ masculine ]
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land-hláford, es; m.
a land-lord, an owner of land, lord of the manor
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  • Tódǽle man ða eahta dǽlas on twá and fó se landhláford tó healfum tó healfum se bisceop sý hit cynges man sý hit þegnes

    [cf.

    • H. I. 11
    • ;
    • Th. i. 520, 18-20

    reliquum in duas partes dividant, dimidium habeat dominus, dimidium habeat episcopus, sit homo regis vel alterius],

    • L. Edg. i. 3
    • ;
    • Th. i. 264, 3
    • :
    • L. Eth. ix. 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 342, 19
    • :
    • L. C. E. 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 366, 9
    • .
  • Healde se landhláford ðæt forstolene orf óþ ðæt se ágenfrigea ðæt geácsige

    let the lord keep the stolen cattle until the owner get to hear of it,

    • L. Edg. S. 11
    • ;
    • Th. i, 276, 14
    • :
    • L. Eth. i. 3
    • ;
    • Th. 1. 282, 27
    • .
  • And nán man ne hwyrfe nánes yrfes bútan ðæs geréfan gewitnesse oððe ðæs mæssepreóstes oððe ðæs landhláfordes,

    • L. Ath. i. 10
    • ;
    • Th. i. 204, 18
    • .
the lord of a country
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  • Hú stíðe se landhláford spræc wið hig, and hig cwǽdon se landhláford wénde ðæt wé wǽron sceáweras

    locutus est nobis dominus terræ dure et putavit nos exploratores esse,

    • Gen. 42, 30
    • .
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v.  hláford.
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