Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Boon-work at harvest-time: a service which some tenants had to perform at the bidding or request of their lord.
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- verb intransitive To
drip about or all over; drip onto (something). - noun A
band ofharvesters . - noun A
crowd .
Etymologies
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From be- (“on, about, all over”) + drip.
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From Middle English *bederepe, *bidrepe, from Old English bedrīp ("compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request"), from bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + rīp (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.
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