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knaveship|ˈneɪvʃɪp|
Also (Sc.) 6 knaship, knaifschip, 7 knawship.
[f. knave n. + -ship.]
1. The condition of being a knave: used with a possessive, as a mock title.
1589Pappe w. Hatchet B, Your Knaueship brake you[r] fast on the Bishops. 1680Revenge i. i. 6 What, Mr. Trickwell, does your Knaveship dare walk the street? 1767Thornton tr. Plautus II. 322 Let him try the cause..whether too your knaveship Should not be clapt in prison. 1887Swinburne Locrine ii. ii. 28 The liar will say no more—his heart misgives His knaveship.
†2. Sc. The quantity of corn or meal payable to a miller's servant (cf. knave n. 2, quot. 1820) as one of the sequels or small dues levied on each lot of corn ground at a thirlage mill. Obs.
15..Aberdeen Reg. (Jam.), Prewing of the auld statutis & vse that thai hed wownt to hef of the multur of ilk boll, and quhat knaship. 1575Burgh Rec. Glasgow (Mait. Cl. 1832) 37 Taking furth þairof of v multours and thre knaifschips of malt. 1596Reg. Mag. Sig. (1890) 176/1 Cum astrictis multuris acrarum de F. vocat. le knaifschip. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 3 (Act Will. c. 9) Ane free man or ane free halder, sall gif for multure at the milne..of tuentie bolles, ane firlot (as knawship). 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law ii. ix. §19 The sequels are the small parcels of corn or meal given as a fee to the servants, over and above what is paid to the multurer; and they pass by the name of knaveship. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. viii, Regular payment of..multure, lock, gowpen, and knaveship, and all the various exactions now commuted for money. |