laird in English
The former leader of Scotland's lairds is selling about 500 acres of his Brucklay Estate in countryside west of Peterhead, along with 10 tenant houses, farmland, a lake and the ruins of a castle.
Use "laird" in a sentence
1. If I stay here long enough, I could become a laird.
2. The Scots have a similar dish to trifle, tipsy laird, made with Drambuie or whisky.
3. Laird’s Straight Applejack 86 represents the return to the Laird family’s historic roots
4. 30 Ken Laird is describing the organization of the Scandinavian savings bank he works for.
5. ‘As baronies survived after 1747, it is still possible to buy laird status with an estate which is a Barony.’
6. 27 "Sometimes things are in the air, " said Trey Laird, the advertising whiz behind campaigns for Donna Karan and Gap.
7. The word Bawbee is derived from the laird of Sillebawby, a mint master, mentions in a Treasurer's account of Sept
8. These Cherts were formed on sponges and spicules are readily apparent upon microscopic inspection (Laird 1935:254–55; Wray 1948:37)
9. I dinna know the whole of it, but I know ‘twas said by the laird that she was the Comeliest of all lasses.
10. The Laird family has produced Applejack in New Jersey since 1698, with the first commercial transaction, recorded in the family ledger, in 1780.
11. She was one of our first Aviatrices, daughter of a Scottish laird, used to ferry Dexter cattle around after she got her license
12. Designed in 1934 to fit the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, Ark Royal was built by Cammell Laird and Company Ltd. at Birkenhead, England, and completed in November 1938.
13. Five years after entering the House of Commons in 1908 he was appointed solicitor general in Sir Robert Laird BORDEN's ministry and 2 years later added the post of secretary of state.
14. First Known Use of Bawbee 1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1 History and Etymology for Bawbee probably from Alexander Orrok, laird of Sille bawbe flourished 1538 Scottish master of the mint
15. He sailed from Kirkcaldy on 1 September 1536, with the Earl of Argyll, the Earl of Rothes, Lord Fleming, David Beaton, the Prior of Pittenweem, the Laird of Drumlanrig and 500 others, using the Mary Willoughby as his flagship.
16. Arguen, a healer, is accused of witchcraft by the Laird's wife Marianne. Arguen gets thrown into the dungeon for two months until her brother Douglas frees her to escape to see his friend Laird Blake
17. As always, McPhee (whose ancestors came from the island) mixes geography, geology, history and humanity to tell the tell of life on a tiny island owned by the laird (lord) and populated by the small farmers of rented plots, or Crofters.
18. The only thing they could do in attempt to be repaid was to raise Apprisings on the property of the borrowers – something that made it difficult for the laird involved to get more credit but did little to recover the money he had already borrowed
19. If ye see the laird, tell him what ye hear; tell him this makes the twelve hunner and nineteen time that Jennet Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and stable, man, guest, and master, wife, miss, or Bairn-- black, black be their fall!"
20. Here is the experience of an Orcadian in the Canongate of Edinburgh: "Ae wife luckid oot at a muckle apstair window; the meenit the Laird saw a heed i' a window atween him an' de licht, he stend stock still, an' says he tae me—'Po' me sal, there's a muckle Bauckie!' (cf
21. ‘He was now an author of world renown, a Baronet, the friend of kings and princes and since 1821, Laird of Abbotsford, his new country seat in the Borders.’ ‘Having previously declined a knighthood, Heaton was made a Baronet in 1912.’ ‘In 1608 he was knighted, and was created a Baronet in 1611, two years before his death.’