tacksmanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˈtaksmən/

名詞

tacksman (複数形 tacksmen)

1. (Scotland) A person who holds a tack from another; a tenant.
   • 1885: The Crofter in History by Lord Colin Campbell

     ... a numerous class of occupiers who cultivated what would now be considered fair-sized crofts, have entirely disappeared, as well as the tenants and tacksmen who were still higher in the scale.

   • 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley 2009, p. 13:

     MacLeod from Dunvegan, his tacksmen big with vengeance, caught up with the raiders by Ardmore Bay, and none of the MacDonalds was spared.

語源 2

See taxman.

名詞

tacksman (複数形 tacksmen)

1. Obsolete spelling of taxman