Middle English Dictionary Entry
nām n.
Entry Info
| Forms | nām n. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law The distraining of a person's movable goods, distress.
Associated quotations
- (c1290) Britton 1 (Lamb 403)137 : Naam si est un general noun a avers et a chateus et a totes choses moebles qe hom put prendre en noun de destresce.
- (?a1325) Mirror Justices in Seld.Soc.770 : Une accioun mixte..qest appelle de naam..Naam nest autre chose qe renable destrece.