Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old seigniorial right under which the lord of a manor required a tenant's sheep to pasture on his fields as a means of manuring the land, he in turn being bound to provide a fold for the sheep.
  • noun A customary fee paid by a tenant to the lord of a manor for exemption from this obligation. Also called fald-fee.
  • noun Also foldage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (O. Eng. Law) A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law, obsolete A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin faldagium, from Anglo-Saxon fald, English fold. Compare foldage.

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