(legal, UK, historical) A letting or renting, especially a licence to enclose land in a forest with a low hedge and ditch, under a yearly rent.
(legal, UK, historical) A letting or renting, especially a licence to enclose land in a forest with a low hedge and ditch, under a yearly rent.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, legal) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.
(Scotland, historical) A person, especially a kindly tenant, having land tenure by rental right.
(US, historical) Opposing the collection of outstanding rents in upstate New York during the early 19th century after the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III.
(historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
(Scotland, historical) Rent due to be paid before the first crop is reaped.