Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To participate or share in common; act by interchange; also, to keep commons or eat together.
  • In English law, to graze cattle reciprocally on each other's common; use two commons interchangeably or in common.
  • To denounce for criminal communication or fellowship. See intercommoning.

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

  • transitive verb obsolete To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
  • transitive verb (O. Eng. Law) To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

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

  • verb obsolete To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table.
  • verb obsolete, UK, law To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

Etymologies

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Old French entrecommuner. See inter- and common.

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