hauld

English

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Noun

hauld (plural haulds)

1. (historical) Synonym of odalman.
   • 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 272:

     If, then, at the time of the laws we look at the class of landowners who were prominent as odalmen or haulds—typical men with wergelds originally of 100 cows—they were not only men of full kindred whose full pedigree of freedom went back the necessary nine generations, but their grandfather’s grandfather must have possessed the land.

Scots

Verb

hauld

1. alternative form of haud

Noun

hauld (plural haulds)

1. alternative form of haud