(a) Tribute; a tax, subsidy; (b) manorial or customary rent; ?also, a field rented for a customary service or payment; setten to ~, to let (property) out to rent; (c) in combs: burgable, ?a tax on dwellings, ? = burgh-bot; corn ~, a rent for land used for raising grain; ~ aker, a field rented for a customary service or payment; ~ bere (bord, corn, dong), barley (boards, grain, dung), or an equivalent in money, paid as rent; ~ erthe, plowing and sowing service as rent for arable land; ~ geld [OE gafol-gyld], gavel rent; -- also in surname; ~ hai, hay or mowing service as rent; ~ lond [OE gafol-land], land rented for a customary payment or service; ~ man, a tenant paying gavel, a villein; ~ mede, mowing service as rent; also, meadow land rented for pasture during part of the year; ~ marke, ?a payment for boundary hedging in lieu of hedging service; ~ ote, oats as rent; ~ peni, ?a borough rent or tax; ~ rip (rep), harvesting service as rent; ~ rod, ?a payment for fencing in lieu of fencing service; ~ sed, seed grain as rent; ~ sester, a customary tax or toll on each sester of beer sold; ~ swin, ?hogs paid as rent; ~ timber (werk), timber (labor service) as rent. [See also breche ~, brene ~, chese ~, hous ~, lond ~, mede ~, shon ~, smere ~, stede ~, strete ~, tanne ~, win ~, etc.]

(a) The lending of money at interest, usury; also, money lent at interest; also fig.; (b) interest for the use of money; yeven to ~, to lend (money) at interest.

In place names; ?also, as a field name [see Smith PNElem. 1.192 & cp. sense 1. (c)].