land-holder
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The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is influential and respected because he is a great land-holder with a high official position, and belongs by birth to that group of families which forms the permanent nucleus of the ever-changing Court society.
From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
Subsequently it was used in England to denote a land-holder who was of free but not of noble birth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
Colonel Marsh was a large land-holder in his native County, and at the time of his death, was the owner of the farm upon which he was born.
From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher
He soon became a land-holder, then a prosperous cultivator of the soil, and shortly after a town-officer.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
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