Definition of "land-agent" [land-agent]

• A real-estate agent; in England, also a steward or manager of an estate or landed property. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The land-agent received therefore the first fire of"
• "It has not felt the desolating tramp of lawyer or land-agent, nor been bombarded by fine and recovery, lease and release, bargain and sale, Doe and Roe and Geoffrey Styles, and the rest of the pitiless shower of slugs, ending with a charge of Demons."
• "His wife and daughter live under circumstances which would drive many people mad, and the combative land-agent and farmer himself maintains a belligerent attitude, the grey head and slight spare figure bowed, but by no means in submission."