geburn.
/ɡɪˈbʊə/ Historical.
A tenant-farmer (in the early English community).
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farmerc1430
fee-farmer1468
renter1593
raiyat1625
farm holder1681
sky farmer1763
métayer1776
gebur1861
mezzadro1882
bywoner1886
c1000 Laws of Ine (Schmid) c. 6 §3 Gif he..on gebures [huse] gefeohte.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Geburus, a Country-Neighbour.]
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 261 The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semi-servile.
1892 F. Seebohm in Eng. Hist. Rev. July 459 The gebur himself is not a full freeman because he has services to perform on the lord's demesne, and cannot leave the land if he chooses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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