Read full poem →There’s Lowrie the Laird o’ Dumeller—
“Gude day to you, brute!” he comes ben:
Dictionary Entry
The owner of a Scottish estate; a member of the landed gentry, a landowner.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. lairdclowes lairdet lairdlaird younglaird melvinlaird cammelllaird johnlaird old
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Poetry examples for “laird”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Afton’s Laird! Afton’s Laird, when your pen can be spared,
A copy of this I bequeath,
Read full poem →They met upon a day;
And mony a knight, and mony a laird,
This errand fain wad gae.
Read full poem →Altho’ his daddie was nae laird,
And tho’ I hae nae meikle tocher,
Read full poem →Thro’ Galloway and a’ that,
Where is the Laird or belted Knight
The best deserves to fa’ that?
Read full poem →into the hands of Mr. Richmond of Mauchline, and afterwards given by
Burns himself to Mr. Woodburn, factor of the laird of Craigen-gillan;
the song of "For a' that, and a' that" was inserted by the poet, with
Read full poem →Ye’ll there see bonie Peggy;
She kens her father is a laird,
And she forsooth’s a leddy.
Read full poem →Their father’s laird, and weel he can spare’t,
Braid money to tocher them a’, man;
Read full poem →"The Laird's Jock ane, the Laird's Wat twa,
O Hobbie Noble, thou ane maun be!
Read full poem →And Closeburn in a Land!
The laird of Lag, frae my father that fled,
When the Johnston struck aff his hand.