Middle English Dictionary Entry
mover n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mover n. |
| Etymology | MWel. amobre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In phrase: the office of ~, an office conferring the right to receive the Amober (in Welsh Laws, a fee payable to the lord when a maid of his manor married), the Mobarship.
Associated quotations
- (1473) RParl.6.86a : Any Graunte..made unto..John Cleton Squier, Serjant of oure Pantre, in, of, or for th'office of Mover within Dynbiegh Land in Wales.