| 释义 |
room-free, a. Sc. and north.
Also 3–4 rum-, 4–5 roum-fre.
[f. room n.1 + free a.]
†1. Entitled to free accommodation in a mill for the purpose of having one's corn ground. Obs.
1279Percy Chartulary (Surtees) 233 Erunt rumfre et multurfre ad molendinum de Wllouer de omnibus bladis suis. a1300in Hodgson Hist. Northumb. (1832) II. 118 Liberi sint a multura..et sint Rumfre propinquius quod molant post me ipsum et post bladum inventum in trimodio. 1315–7in Laing Charters (1899) 7 Quod ipsi sint rumfre in eodem molendino..quandocunque voluerint molere blada. 1484–5Extr. Rec. Peebles (1872) 31 We find at the cornes of Corscunnyngfeld aucht to be rowme free in the myln of Peblis to the fourti corne.
2. (See quot.)
1887Jamieson's Dict. Suppl. s.v., To sit room-free in a dwelling-house means to sit rent-free; and to hold a property room-free is to hold it without paying the usual burghal duties. |