单词 | corn-rent |
释义 | corn-rentn. A rent for agricultural land paid in corn, or one the amount of which is determined each year according to the price of corn. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in produce or livestock > specific rynmart1433 rynmutton1459 capon1495 mart1520 tack-swine1523 reek hen1540 farm meal1547 reek-poultry1585 reek fowl1592 corn-rate1665 wheat-rent?c1682 nowt-geld1688 farm-dish1713 corn-rent1809 pepper-rent1866 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Corn-rents. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 420/2 Corn-rent is a money-rent varying in amount according to the fluctuations of the price of corn. In many parts of the south of Scotland corn-rents are paid according to the fiar prices of corn, as determined in each county by a jury. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. iv. 72 The Cuxham serf..pays a corn-rent of one quarter of seed wheat at Michaelmas, etc. 1878 F. A. Walker Money i. viii. 159 To a certain limited extent such a substitute, where lands are to be leased, has been found in corn-rents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1809 |
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