单词 | room-free |
释义 | † room-freeadj. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. 1. Not incurring or exempt from the payment levied on corn for occupying space in a mill while awaiting grinding. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [adjective] > entitled to free accommodation in mill room-freec1170 c1170 in J. Spottiswoode Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh (1847) 90 Concedo predictum et heredes suos rumfre post bladum meum. 1280 in M. T. Martin Percy Chartulary (1911) 233 Erunt rumfre et multurfre ad molendinum de Wllouer de omnibus bladis suis. a1282 in J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II (1832) II. 118/1 Liberi sint a multura..et sint Rumfre propinquii qui molant post me ipsum et post bladum inventum in trimodio. 1315–17 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 7 Quod ipsi sint rumfre in eodem molendino..quandocunque voluerint molere blada. 1484–5 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 31 We find at the cornes of Corscunnyngfeld aucht to be rowme free in the myln of Peblis to the fourti corne. 1538 Haddington Burgh Rec. 23 Jan. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Roum-fre Gyff the inhabitars bryngs thair said aittis to owr millis, we will that thair be roume fre. 1562 in J. Spottiswoode Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh (1847) 302 Et eciam lie rowm free molere prout vsus fuit temporibus retroactis. 1643 in Trans. E. Lothian Antiquarian & Field Naturalists' Soc. (1932) 2 146 Of all uther cornes quhilkes he shall have for his hous quhilkes he sall happin buy, he being roumefrie and paying als easie dewtie as uther men in the countrey. 1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 350 Liberty to grind at her mill Rumfre (room free) and free of multure. 2. Rent-free (see quot. 1887). rare. ΚΠ 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. To sit room-free in a dwelling-house means to sit rent-free; and to hold a property room-free is to hold it without paying the usual burghal duties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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