smallholding

See also: small holding

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smallholding (plural smallholdings)

  1. A small farm.
  2. The owning of such a farm.
  3. (US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less).
    • 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8:
      […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.

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