单词 | quarter fee |
释义 | > as lemmasquarter fee quarter fee n. †(a) a fee or allowance payable quarterly (obsolete); (b) historical money or service due from a vassal to a feudal superior, equal to a quarter the amount required to support one knight. ΚΠ 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 11 Clearkes and other knaves..Will take a pention or a quarter-fee. 1798 Edinb. Advertiser 16 Oct. 2/2 The quarter fees [sc. of the School] were, a few years since, considerably raised. 1891 Eng. Hist. Rev. 6 642 The original transcriber..has changed the quarter fee of Geoffrey fitz Piers into half a fee. 1942 Eng. Hist. Rev. 57 455 The difficulty raised by Hugh de Dutton's service of two footmen for his quarter fee at Ness. 2003 Times (Nexis) 10 Oct. [In 1300] the manor of Woodcroft was held by the Woodcroft family..for half a knight's fee,..with the Preston family as sub-tenants for a quarter fee. < as lemmas |
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