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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Someone who opposes the payment of rent; especially one during the Anti-Rent War in the mid 1800s, who resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.

Etymology

From anti- + rent + -er.

Related phrases

new york

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