"eldmother" meaning in English

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        "3": "eald mōdor",
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        "5": "grandmother"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldmōder, aldemōder (“grandmother”).",
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        {
          "ref": "1571 November 5, John Heworth of Gatisheid, Will, in Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham (1835)",
          "text": "Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke."
        },
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          "ref": "1586 July 15, “Isabel Chamber against John Robson in Causa Defamationis”, in Depositions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings from the Courts ... of Durham, published 1845:",
          "text": "John Morpeth [...] saith that, on Sondaie last [...] the said John Robson said to the said Arthure, \"Thou haiest a witch to thy eldmother[.]\"",
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        "One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law."
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        "(dialectal, now archaic) One's grandmother or other female ancestor, or one's mother-in-law."
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        {
          "word": "eldfather"
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        {
          "word": "eldermother"
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  "word": "eldmother"
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    },
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English eldmoder, from Old English eald mōdor (“grandmother”), equivalent to eld (“old”) + mother. Cognate with Scots eldmoder, eldmother (“mother-in-law”), Old Frisian aldmōder, aldemōder (“grandmother”).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "eldermother"
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