Call out informal greeting to fellow freeholder? (6)
I believe the answer is:
yeoman
'freeholder?' is the definition.
(I know that yeoman is a type of freeholder)
'call out informal greeting to fellow' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'fellow' could be 'man' (fellow can mean a man) and 'man' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'yeo' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yeoman that I've seen before include "Old English soldier or small farmer" , "Minor official" , "Former royal servant" , "Land-owning farmer - beefeater" , "Beefeater was this Tower warden's nickname" .)