Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Scots law, the district attached to a mill, or the whole lands astricted to a mill, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain to the mill to be ground. See thirlage.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The duty of a tenant to bring corn etc to a particular mill to be ground; the land so astricted
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Scots Law) The jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
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“Two thefts with habit and repute, a hame-sucken, rather a good forgery, and an assault with intent to commit.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sucken’.
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Mill
The milling of grain: tools, people, processes, laws.
mill, grain, flour, miller, water-wheel, meal, thirl, thirlage, sucken, suckener, astricted, outsucken and 33 more...
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