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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Anglo-Saxon law, a person, as a servant of the king, who could be quartered upon a monastery or other estate, which was obliged to entertain him, in the course of the king's journeying. Also
fasterman .
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The law, which ruins the hands of the skilled workman, and detains skilled and unskilled alike until the labour market is closed to them, supplies a dietary which would kill anybody but a professional fasting-man in a month, and keeps a keen eye on mendicancy.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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