(a) The back of a person; also fig.; rigge and ribbe, ribbe and rigge, completely; rigges bon, the backbone; (b) the back of an animal; the shell of a snail; (c) in phrases, of burdens: at (on, up,……
(a) ?A separate holding, perh. split off from the unified villein's holding; (b) an occupant of such a holding, one of a class of tenant named in records from Northumberland and Cumberland, app. one……