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- noun Plural form of
vill .
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Examples
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I remember several times when the zone was up for grabs if only I could prevent vills from taking Alpha and then run really quickly over to some other open pillbox on the other side of the map where my hvy pet was preparing it to be taken by me for the hero side.
Twixt 2009
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Royal commissions on circuit collected on oath (sworn inquest) from peoples of the counties and vills full information as to size, resources, and present and past ownership of every hide of land.
b. The British Isles 2001
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Neither are they identical with the commons of the separate vills -- the manorial or parochial commons.
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The cantons were divided into districts or hundreds, so called because they contained a hundred vills or townships.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Two classes of men have special rights in the moor: owners and occupiers of tenements within the forest, and venville tenants, or owners of land in particular vills, or towns, adjoining the forest.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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From vills we may naturally turn to those who in ancient days -- the word has another meaning now -- were named after them _villeins_.
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By these enclosures and evictions in some cases the open lands of whole vills were enclosed, the old agriculture came to an end, and as the enclosers were often non-residents, the whole farming population disappeared from the village.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904
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The name is peculiar to that district, and is applied chiefly to certain _vills_ or villages (for the most part also parishes), and to certain tenements within them, which pay fines to the Lord of Lidford and Dartmoor, viz. the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall.
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Of the royal vills constructed of stone, removed from their old site, and handsomely rebuilt by the king's command in more fitting places?
The Life of King Alfred Giles, J. A. 1847
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Concerning the "Fabricis" which are situated in the vills of the forest.
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