pendicler Sc.
(ˈpɛndɪklə(r))
[f. prec. + -er1.]
The holder of a pendicle; an inferior tenant.
| 1791 T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 130 Neither the grant of the extensive domain to the immediate tenant of the Crown,..nor that of the husbandman to the pendicler and cotter, was..absolute and perpetual. 1794 Statist. Acc. Scot. XI. 357 The parish also abounded with pendiclers, or inferior tenants. 1893 J. Skinner Autobiog. Metaphysician xxxviii. 202 The antipathy of the large farmers to the pendicler class. |