A service owed by the tenant to his feudal superior [orig. consisting of work performed by the tenant with his draft animals]. …

(a) The feudal tenure or status of a bonde or bond(eman (q.v.), bondage; holden lond in bondage; (b) a service required of a customary tenant; (c) the class of bondmen and serfs, the unfree. …

A manorial rent exacted for a tenant's cattle. …

A customary rent paid in grain or chickens for the support of the (parish) church, usually at Martinmas (Nov.11). [See Neilson Cust.Rents in OSSLH 2 193-6.] …

The office of the collector (at Calais). …

A land tax levied by the Norman kings [orig., either by the Anglo-Saxon kings for defense against the 'Danes', or by the 'Danish' rulers as a tribute]. …

The law code imposed upon the northern and eastern counties of England by the Danes or Northmen, or the 15 counties so governed; the Danelaw. …

A kind of feudal tenure or service. …

Law Survey, appraisal, or valuation of land or other property for purposes of taxation; (b) assessed value; (c) tax levied on such valuation; also, income from taxes. …

A measure of capacity for grain, etc.; also, a vessel used to measure a firlot of grain, etc. …

(a) A group of ships; esp. a fleet of warships, a navy; ?a naval expedition; (b) a troop of armed men, an army; (c) ?a set (of fishing nets). …

A small strip of plowed land [orig., a strip lying at the end of the field and plowed perpendicularly to the plowing of the rest of the field, a headland]. …

A manorial service: transportation (of produce, etc.) on foot, on one's back (instead of conveyance by a draught or pack animal). …

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. …

(a) An English system of collective surety within a hundred, or some other territorial division, by which a certain number of freemen or villagers (?orig. ten) combined to give security for each other……

Liable to the payment of taxes to the English crown; as noun: geld. …

(a) The load of a ship, cargo; (b) a measure for hides, 200 hides; (c) a measure for wool; prob. 20 sacks; (d) a measure for herrings and other fish, bacon, beer, wine, small cut or shaped stones……

A maker of pales or paling, fence-maker. …

A payment made for the enfolding of livestock outside the lord's fold. …

(a) The spike of a candlestick, pricket; (b) a candle used with a pricket, a kind of candle. …