Also 8 udiller, udelar, 9 udeler, uddaler. [f. prec. + -ER. Cf. ODALLER.] A tenant of land by udal right. Also attrib.
1669. in Peterkin, Orkney & Zetl. (1822), 190. [An act] for the udallers of Orknay and Zetland.
1671. Shetland Doct., in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1892), XXVI. 194. He … shall not suffer the same [lands] to be incrotched upon be the ffewaries, udallers and uythers. Ibid. The ffewares, udallers, tennendes, occupiers of the landis [etc.].
1733. Gifford, Descr. Zetland (1886), 9. The head courts … where all the Udillers were obliged to convene.
1798. Statist. Acc. Scot., XX. 269. There are six udelars in Deerness.
1805. G. Barry, Hist. Orkney Isl., I. ii. 28. Men here called Udallers, who are little proprietors of land, that has never been held by the feudal tenure, nor subjected to either service or payment to any superior.
1821. Scott, Pirate, xvii. The stout-hearted and experienced general, for so the Udaller might be termed.
1884. Gd. Words, Nov., 747/2. The last remains of the old udallers are to be found amongst the ‘peerie (small) lairds’ of Fladdabister.
