[rip-towel ‘The gratuity or reward given to customary Tenants, when they have reaped their Lord's Corn’. 1701Manley Cowell's Interpreters.v.Reap-towel (and hence in later Dicts.), citing MS. Cott. Nero A. xii. fol. 104 b (c 1350). The word in the MS. is ripetowel and the meaning uncertain.]