smallholding

IPA: smˈɔɫhoʊɫdɪŋ

A small farm.
(US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20–49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).

Examples of "smallholding" in Sentences

The land is broken into a smallholding.
A smallholding is a farm of small size.
The smallholding is the most widely practiced.
Nowadays it is a smallholding without a dwelling house.
I'd love to drop everything and live on a smallholding.
The local economy is mainly based on traditional smallholding.
- 1410 Alfred Maritz (31) shot upheld in smallholding dispute by 3 men, Erasmia, GT
- 1410 Alfred Maritz (31) shot passed in smallholding conflict by 3 men, Erasmia, GT
- 1410 Alfred Maritz (31) shot passed in smallholding conflict by three men, Erasmia, GT
The smallholding is a squalid mess, with a pile of discarded plastic bottles, pallets and a table tumbled on top of a sign advertising 'free range eggs'.
Her campsite is spread across a smallholding boasting seven acres of woods and just 10 pitches, so there are plenty of nooks and crannies to hide away in.
Apr-Sep; from £160 for a weekend, £240 midweek, £495 per full week; 07773 505671Cae Wennol is situated in an 11-acre, family-run smallholding in the north-eastern approaches of the Snowdonia national park.
Well, it turned out that the vegetables came from a smallholding and the dairy produce and eggs from a farm on the island and, according to what Cousin Marie was saying, the owner of the smallholding was the farmer’s son and Aunt Eliza had known the farmer for more than thirty years and the son since she was a girl of twenty.