feuar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots feuar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːə(ɹ)/
• Homophone: fewer

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

1. (Scotland, property law, historical) One who holds a feu.
   • 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:

     These out-field spots were selected by any feuar at his own choice, amongst the sheep-walks and hills which were always annexed to the Township

   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4:

     In 1835 he cleared the green by giving his sixty tenants, or feuars, land behind their cottages[.]

References

• “feuar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Scots

Etymology

feu +‎ -ar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfjuːər]

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

1. (law) one who holds land in feu