† meatcornn.
Obsolete.
An allowance of grain, esp. corn, given to servants, etc.Quot. c1275 is a late copy of a will dating from a1038.
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meatcorn1264
corrody1430
sustentation1461
dieta1483
diet-money1519
board wages1539
viaticum1594
subsistence money1693
table allowance1762
board-money1809
subsistence allowance1824
beer money1827
in-maintenance1836
subsistence allowance1848
conred1876
sustenance money1905
rider1975
1264–5 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 51 (MED) Metecoren.
c1275 ( Will of Þurketel (Sawyer 1527) in D. Whitelock Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930) 68 And alle mine men fre, and ilk habbe his toft and his metecu & his metecorn.
1320 Rolls of Parl. I. 367 Stipendia & metecorn, ac cetera debita servientum in Monasterio predicto.
1385–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 391 Tribus servientibus apud le Hough pro le mettecorn.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 335 Mete corne, panicium.
1498–9 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 113 Pro le mete corn.
1522–3 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 255 Pro le metcorn sowlsilver et aliis necessariis.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) s.v. Metecorn A certain measure, or portion of corn, formerly given by the Lord of a Manour, as an encouragement and reward for their work or labour.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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