Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an old writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A grandfather's grandfather.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death.
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- noun obsolete A
grandfather 'sgrandfather .
Etymologies
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French trisaïeul, from Latin tris, tres, three + French aïeul grandfather. Compare besaiel, and see ayle.
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