faldage

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle therein. This privilege was often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Norfolk,countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It was decided , in a case where the lord of a manor had liberty of faldage and a fold-course for 300 sheep over certain closes within the manor, that the lessee of these rights could not feed his own sheep over these closes
  2. A fee paid for exemption from this. countable,obsolete,uncountable

词形变化

faldages plural

词源

From Latin faldagium, from Old English fald (whence English fold). Compare foldage.
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