landlord

nom

1. 1

   A person that leases real property; a lessor.

   Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]

2. 2

   The owner or manager of a public house.

   When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.

3. 3

   argotA shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

   the lurking presence of “The Landlord”

verbe

1. 1

   rareTo lease real property; to act as a lessor.

   All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.

   cannot admit realization of realities without admitting a changed view of the world she landlords.

   Middlemen had fairly steady relationships with Meridian; the same people were landlording houses in all the places where Meridian was assembling land: West St Jamestown, Homewood and Suffolk, Dundas and Sherbourne, George Street.

   I can recall many pubs in Gosport which were 'landlorded' by retired Navy personnel and which featured ephemera such as Recruiting Posters, uplifting propoganda.

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