timarn.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 43 For the Ottaman princes seize vpon all the land which they take from their enimes, and assigning a small parcell..to their ancient lords, deuide the residue into Timars, to euerie gallant seruitor a portion; but vpon condition, to finde so and so many seruiceable horse for the warre.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. i. 17 For reuenues of Land, The Tymars giuen in farme only for life,..pay tythes and other duties to the Emperor.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 166 These Timars or grounds, entertaine..two hundreth and fifty thousand horses.

1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 87 Planting above sixty thousand Souldiers upon Lands in Lombardy; That is, erecting so many Beneficia, or Timarr's.

1819 T. Hope Anastasius (1820) II. xiii. 303 The Spahees, or horse soldiers, on the contrary, often only holding their Zeeameth or Timar from some grandee as the wages of domestic service.

1877 J. Baker Turkey in Europe 157 A Timar contained from three to five hundred acres of land.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIII. 776/2 The newly conquered lands were assigned to their commanders in the form of timars.

1604 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. K3^v They are bound to serue the Grand Signore, (Great Turke) with a proportion of horse at their owne charge, and in their owne person in his warres... These are called his Timars.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 232 The Timarrs or Turqmars are more despicable [i.e. than the ranks and degrees before mentioned].