No laird worked twice, say (7)
I believe the answer is:
ordinal
'twice say' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'no laird worked' is the wordplay.
'worked' is an anagram indicator.
'no'+'laird'='nolaird'
'nolaird' is an anagram of 'ORDINAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ordinal that I've seen before include "Roman Catholic service book" , "Numerals such as first and second" , "Denoting a numerical order in a series" , "It shows your place" , "Number such as first or second" .)