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‖ læt Hist.|lɛːt|
[OE. lǽt (found only once) = OHG. lâȥ (? descendant of a freedman; glossed libertinus):—OTeut. *læ̂to-z, app. related to OE. lǽtan let v.1]
The Old English designation for a person of status intermediate between that of a freeman and a slave.
a1000Laws æthelb. (Liebermann) §26 Gif læt of slæhð, þone selestan xxx scll. forᵹelde; ᵹif þane oþerne of slæhð, lx. scillingum forᵹelde; ðam þriddan xl scillingum forᵹelden. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iv. 64 The three ranks of men, the noble, the freeman, and the læt. |