The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lairdship
Lairdship \Laird"ship\, n.
The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property.
[Scot.]
--Ramsay.
Wiktionary
lairdship
n. (context Scotland English) the state or condition of being a laird
Usage examples of "lairdship".
Kirkbyres had married the heiress of Gersefell, an estate which marched with his own, and was double its size, whence the lairdship was sometimes spoken of by the one name, sometimes by the other.
Now he's a brankie wee worker, is Rabbie, and his lairdship will no be—"