Glenlyon and several of his men were taken into the house of a tacksman who was named, from the cluster of cabins over which he exercised authority, Inverriggen.
At Auchnaion the tacksman Auchintriater was up early that morning, and was sitting with eight of his family round the fire, when a volley of musketry laid him and seven of his companions dead or dying on the floor.
Annabella, who married John Maciver of Tournaig, and afterwardstacksman of Gress, in the Lewis, with issue.
The sixth son was Roderick Mackenzie, tacksman of Tighnafaoilin, who married Barbara, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, I.
Anne, who married John Macintyre, tacksman of Letterewe, with issue.
A pilot-boat comes off from Mr. Anderson's house, a principal tacksman of Lord Reay's.
The Tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the Laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation.
To banish the Tacksmanis easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an expeditious mode of husbandry; but little abundance, which there is nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness.
The land, say they, is let to the Tacksman at sixpence an acre, and by him to the tenant at ten- pence.
The tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation.
A tacksman of yours brought me a letter from King James—I must thank ye for the warning it contained,” he added.
He was the eldest son of "Alastair Og," who, like his father before him, was tacksman of all the lands on the north side of Loch Ewe belonging to the lairds of Gairloch.
An ancestor of the laird of Torridon, also named Duncan Darroch, was the son of a tacksman whose grandfather had come from the north and settled in Jura.
The landlord of the ground was Mr. George Hoseason, but the tacksman was his half-brother, Mr. Hoseason of Mossbank.
The tenants on the Ollaberry property in Northmaven parish are obliged to fish to a firm, of which the principal member is Mr. John Anderson, Hillswick, brother of the proprietor and tacksman of the estate.
I understand the men in that neighbourhood were under an obligation to fish to Mouat, who was the tacksman of the property?
Did you always sell your winter fish to the tacksmanat Vidlin?
Were you tacksman of any properties in that district?
I only knew that the tacksman wished to have them; but we did not sell them all to him.
I am not tacksman of anything but the Skerries Islands.
You are a merchant in Lerwick, andtacksman of the estate of Lunna?
The evidence against Mouat was certainly given with such freedom, I might say with such an earnestness of hatred, as was not displayed towards any merchant or tacksman who is still in the country.
A man who is in debt to the landlord or merchant-tacksman is expected to offer his cow or pony which is for sale to him first.
If a man is bound to fish to a proprietor or tacksman in Yell, is that man bound to deal at the shop of his employer?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tacksman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
