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A service which some tenants had to perform to their lord, viz. at his request or bidding to reap his corn at harvest-time. The days thus employed…
a day of manorial harvest service (see bedrip, n.) at which the reapers were provided with only water to drink.
some kind of bedrip, n. (the force of wed- is uncertain).