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‡SUBTACK, n. A sub-lease or sub-let; a house or land occupied on these terms. Hence sub-tacksman, a sub-tenant. See Tack, n.2Bnff. 1700 Records Bnff. (S.C.) 206:
Maisters and heritors and tenants and subtacksmen.Sc. 1701 Edb. Gazette (10 Feb.):
All the Subtacks of the Inland Excyse except the last of February instant, are to be Set.Sc. 1731 Session Papers Petition J. Potter (7 Dec.) 4:
Mr Potter and the original Tacksman, and his Assignies and Subtacksmen.Ayr. 1761 Ayr Presb. Reg. MS. (2 April):
She with her husband possessed the subtack of Dunmurchy.Wgt. 1795 Stat. Acc.1 IV. 141:
Several subtacks on another farm.Ags. 1821 Montrose Chronicle (28 Sept.):
A Subtack of that Dwelling-House in Drumlithie, formerly occupied by Alexander Wilson.Kcd. 1900 W. Gairdner Glengoyne I. 127:
The principal subtack or croft on it was tenanted by "the Elder."
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