单词 | radman |
释义 | radmann. historical. Under the feudal system: = radknight n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by service or allegiance > by military service > by service on horseback radknightOE riding-kingc1400 radman1628 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. i. 5 b Coleberti often also named in Domesday, signifieth Tenants in free socage by free rent, and so it is expounded of..Radmans..there also often named. 1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 41 Coleshill..had at the Conquest four villeyns, two boors, and a Radman. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 139 A similar character seems traceable in the Radman or Radcnecht of Southumbrian England. 1908 P. Vinogradoff Eng. Society Eleventh Cent. i. 70 The radmen frequently mentioned in the survey of Worcestershire are evidently of the same kind as the sergeants described in Wulfstan's well-known letter as subjected to the lex equitandi. 1956 G. W. S. Barrow Feudal Brit. ii. 22 In the midlands and the south, men of the quality of the geneat or radman formed a decided minority. 2003 H. M. Thomas Eng. & Normans xi. 163 These francigenae, like priests and radmen, would have been part of village life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1628 |
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