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reap-silver Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. as prec. + silver.]
The sum paid by a tenant to a superior, in commutation of his services in harvest-time.
12..Chron. Joc. de Brakelonda (Camden) 73 Solebant homines de singulis domibus dare celerario unum denarium in principio Augusti, ad metendum segetes nostras, qui census dicebatur rep-selver. 1299Muniment. Magd. Coll. Oxf. (1882) 145 Ripsulwer. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. x. 123 The Lakenheath eels cease to breed squabbles between human beings; the penny of reap-silver to explode into the streets of the Female Chartism of St. Edmundsbury. 1929F. M. Powicke in Cambr. Med. Hist. VI. vii. 229 The definition of the competence in jurisdiction of the monastic cellarer and the borough reeve, the wrangles about reapsilver and other dues. |