bond-landn.
Land held by bondage tenure; an early form of copyhold land.
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bond-land1861
c1120 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 777 Þa let he Cuðbriht ealdorma[n] x bonde-land [L. terram x manentium] æt Swines heafde.]
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 200 It is probable that the freemen upon bond-land were in the first instance Britons who retained their holding on condition of paying tribute.
1882 C. Elton Orig. Eng. Hist. 192 In some places..there are two kinds of copyhold land, the one called ‘Bond-land’ and the other ‘Soke-land’.
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n.1861- to hold one's mansion
- to hold one's maundy
- to hold one's mouth
- to hold one's mud
- to hold one's nose
- to hold one's nose to the grindstone
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- to hold open house