单词 | telligraph |
释义 | telligraphn. English History. A description, esp. as given in a charter, of a piece or pieces of land, typically in terms of boundaries; a charter containing such a description. Cf. land-boc n., terrier n.2 ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > charter or deed conveying land > describing boundaries terrier1477 telligraph1863 1863 W. Beamont Literal Extension Domesday Bk. Cheshire & Lancs. Introd. p. vi The witnesses would probably produce the telegraphs [1882 (ed. 2) teligraphs] by which they held their lands. [Note Telligraphia.] 1936 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 19 53 Some of those [documents] before [the time of] the Confessor are telligraphs, the boundaries of the lands granted being given in Anglo-Saxon. 1994 D. Sullivan Westm. Corridor 63 A document..[which] has become known as the ‘Telligraph of Ethelred’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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