Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old law, a certain quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent or other duty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, law A quantity of
oats paid by atenant to alandlord in lieu of rent.
Etymologies
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Old French avenage, from avene, from Latin avena oats
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