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† pride-gavel Obs. local.
Also prid-.
[app. from pride n.2 + gavel1 tax; but cf. quot. 1779.]
(See quots.)
1663S. Taylor Hist. Gavelkind ix. 112 A Pride-gavel; which in the Lordship of Rodely in the County of Gloucester is used and paid..as a Rent to the Lord of the Mannour, by certain Tenants..for their Liberty and Privilege of Fishing in the River Severn for Lamprayes. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 18. 1779 S. Rudder Gloucestersh. 551 Acknowledgments are paid..for fishing in the river Severn, some of which were antiently called Prid-gavel, from the word Gavel a rent, and Pride, the name of a kind of wicker'd putt, or pouchin, which is laid in the water to catch the fish. [No authority is given for this alleged sense of Pride: it is unknown to all the archaic and dialect glossaries and dictionaries.] |