A tenant who holds land from a lord by copie-hold (q.v.). …

Occupying a house, residing. …

A dead body, corpse; quale hold, q. v. …

Management of a household; also, hospitality. …

(a) The head of a household or family; one who manages a household; also, one who is hospitable; (b) the owner or occupant of a house [often difficult to distinguish from (a)]; (c) ?one who practices……

(a) Loyal to a king or master, faithful to Christ; of the heart: faithful; sweren hold, refl. to swear allegiance; (b) of works: faithful; of an oath: pledging loyalty; hold bede, a devout prayer……

(a) The members of a family collectively, including servants, a family; the familia of a bishop, abbot, etc.; also, a hive full of bees; also fig.; (b) the persons living with a king, queen, or noble……

Law (a) Tenure of manorial land by copy of court roll 'according to the custom of the manor and at the will of the lord'; (b) land so held. …

(a) A fortified place, stronghold; (b) a place of confinement; ?a cell. …

A rope or fetter used to hobble or fetter cattle or horses, a hobble. …

(a) Naut. A floor timber of a ship; ?also, one of the ribs of a ship’s hull (b) in combs.: wrong nail, q.v.; wrong rop, a line or cable used to secure the floor timbers or perh. the ribs of a ship’s……

To seize or acquire illegally (land, property, etc.); to make illegal use (of land, a public thoroughfare); to take by force (a country, a domain);--with or without obj. …

'Hold!', a server's call to his opponent in the game of tennis;—used derisively. …

(a) An officer in the Danelaw; (b) ?in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.258]. …

(a) A husk or shell; the seedpod of a leguminous plant [see also pese hol], the hull of grain, the skin of a grape, the cupule of an acorn, etc.; (b) the shell of a whelk; (c) ?the skin of a person……

A double handful. …

(a) The ancestor of the modern game of court tennis, prob. a form of handball played in an enclosed space; also used derisively for warfare with cannonballs; pleien at (the) tenis; (b) tenis bal, a……

The cargo of a ship, a shipload (of a commodity). …

(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……

A package, bundle; burden, load. …