| 单词 | trug wheat |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrug wheat Designating corn (wheat) due as tithe or a similar payment, as trug corn, trug wheat. Now historical.All the quotations allude to a particular custom in the parish of Leominster, Herefordshire. ΚΠ 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) At Lempster at this day the Vicar has Trug Corn allow'd him for Officiating at some Chappels of ease. 1795 J. Price Hist. Acct. Leominster 163 Stoke. This is but a chapelry... The Vicar's Revenue is called Trug Corn. 1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 10 415/2 There is in the parish of Leominster, a payment of the nature of tithe, which is known as trug-wheat. 1948 H. L. V. Fletcher Herefordshire x. 160 The Rector of Leominster, in return for officiating at the chapels of ease at Stoke and Dockelow, was entitled to Trug Wheat, a trug being a twelfth of a horse-load of corn. < as lemmas |
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