collibert

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A socman; a tenant holding in fee socage, but obliged, as long as ho held, to render some customary service or due.
2. n. One of a despised race formerly existing in several parts of France, afterward chiefly found in Poitou, where they lived in boats on the rivers, but now nearly extinct: probably so called from the ancient class of French serfs of that name.