laird
/lerd/
Dictionary
noun
- The owner of a Scottish estate; a member of the landed gentry, a landowner.
- Often in the form Laird of, followed by a patronymic: a Scottish clan chief.
verb
- Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
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