| 单词 | plough-service |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplough-service plough-service n. now historical husbandry done as feudal service; (also occasionally) the tenure of land under the condition of performing this kind of service; cf. socage n. ΚΠ 1681 R. L'Estrange Dissenters Sayings, Pt. 2 v. 65 Art thou then Gods Tenant, and dost owe him Knight-Service and Plough-Service. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. vi. 80 Our common lawyers..derive it from soca, an old Latin word denoting (as they tell us) a plough:..that, in memory of it's original, it still retains the name of socage or plough-service. 1892 Eng. Hist. Rev. 7 445 The holders of virgates in villainage, who contributed oxen to the ploughs and did plough service on the demesne land. 1985 Hist. Jrnl. 28 716 Of burgage, he states that tenants holding under this tenure..could not give plough-service. < as lemmas |
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