单词 | rent-beeves |
释义 | > as lemmasrent-beeves ΚΠ 1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 17 Such charges as were made vppon Oneale, for Rent-Beeues. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 298 As for rent-beeves, sheep, pullein, &c. reserved on their leases, Tenants both payed them the more easily, as growing on the same, and the more cheerfully, because at any time they might freely eat their full share thereof, when repairing to their Land-lords bountiful table. 1786 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibern. (ed. 2) I. iii. i. ii. 396 The kings of England, even as late as the thirteenth century, were often paid in the like old coin of beeves, which were thence called rent-beeves. < as lemmas |
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