"dwarf-holder" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dwarf + holder, by analogy with smallholder. First attested in the 1930s.",
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      "form": "dwarf-holders",
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          "ref": "1987, Richard J. Crampton, A Short History of Modern Bulgaria, page 89",
          "text": "The fund would consist of land confiscated from all owners, individual and institutional, who, according to the new bill, held more than was socially acceptable; the confiscated land would be redistributed amongst the landless and the dwarf-holders.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, David Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe, page 282",
          "text": "This was a time of land hunger and severely declining living standards for the teeming mass of smallholders, cottagers, and landless laborers who crowded onto the land. The world of the Halesowen dwarf-holders was terrible.",
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        "A poor farmer with a very small holding, especially one smaller than required for subsistence."
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          "sense": "farmer with very small holding",
          "word": "törpebirtokos"
        }
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      "sense": "farmer with very small holding",
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  "word": "dwarf-holder"
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