feuar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots feuar.

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

  1. (law, Scotland) One who holds a feu.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feuar in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


Scots

Etymology

feu + -ar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfjuːər]

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

  1. (law) one who holds land in feu
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