单词 | manslot |
释义 | manslotn. Now historical. A smallholding similar in size to a bovate (bovate n.); (esp. in early medieval Norfolk) such a smallholding given to a Danish soldier upon settlement. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > small holding or croft manslotOE bargain1602 burgaine1607 smallholding1696 possession1717 farmlet1794 homecroft1828 croft1850 crofting1851 five-acre1863 three acres and a cow1885 farmette1913 minifundium1950 minifundioa1955 OE Possessions, Rents, & Grants, Bury St. Edmunds in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 192 On Elsingtun hundred ah Sancte Eadmund xxvii manslot, on Spelhoge hundred xlv manslot, [etc.]. c1160 in F. M. Stenton Documents Social & Econ. Hist. of Danelaw (1920) V. 297 Terram que dicitur Manesloth, ad cuius supplementum dedi de meo demenio unam acram terre. 1920 F. M. Stenton Documents Social & Econ. Hist. of Danelaw V. p. xxi (note) This explicit equation between the manslot and the bovate justifies the inference..drawn from the..recurrence of the bovate in these texts. 1928 Eng. Hist. Rev. 43 381 It strongly suggests a definite sequence whereby the earlier hides were broken up by the Danish settlement, which introduced the manlot or bovate as the typical peasant holding. 1970 J. J. N. McGurk Dict. Medieval Terms 26/2 Manslot, the word is of Scandinavian origin meaning ‘man's share’. It is descriptive of a landholding smaller than an oxgang and might well have been the amount of land which fell to the rank and file of the Danish army at the time of settlement. As late as the 13th century it was a familiar division of land in Norfolk. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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