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fyrd Hist.|fɜːd, fɪəd|
[OE. fyrd: see ferd.]
The military array of the whole country before the Conquest; also, the obligation to military service.
1832J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 99 ‘The..fyrd!’ cried Edwal, ‘raise the fyrd.’ 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 83 A threefold obligation lay on all the holders of land in the Kingdom. This consisted of the Bricgbote, Burhbote, and Fyrd. 1861Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xviii. 147 When the king summoned his fyrd to his standard. 1895Meiklejohn Hist. Eng. I. 105 In 1181 a regulation called the Assize of Arms was issued for the Fyrd or National Militia. |