Chiefly Law. A person who becomes surety for another; a bail; a surety; a member of a frank-pledge or frithborh. Now historical.

One of the mutually responsible members of a tithing, etc. Occasionally the tithing or decenary itself.

According to Spelman: one (or each) of the nine pledges or people who stand surety under the headborough (headborough, n.) in a system of…