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gebur Hist.|gɪˈbʊə(r)|
[OE. ᵹebúr = OS. gibûr, OHG. gipûr, gipûro: see neighbour.]
A tenant-farmer (in the early English community).
[c1000Laws of Ine c. 6 §3 (Schmid) Gif he..on ᵹebures [huse] ᵹefeohte. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Geburus, a Country-Neighbour. ]1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 261 The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semi-servile. 1892F. Seebohm in Eng. Hist. Rev. July 459 The gebur himself is not a full freeman because he has services to perform on the lord's demesne, and cannot leave the land if he chooses. |