feuar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots feuar.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

(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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Scots

Etymology

feu +‎ -ar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfjuːər]

Noun

feuar (plural feuars)

(law) one who holds land in feu

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