A service which some tenants had to perform to their lord, viz. at his request or bidding to reap his corn at harvest-time. The days thus employed…

A day of manorial service in autumn, at which food was provided by the lord of the manor; a harvest service. Cf. hunger-bedrip n. at hunger, n.…

A service formerly required of vassals in Scotland and Ireland, consisting in giving hospitality to the superior or his men; a sum of money or other…

A villainage service of ploughing, for which one penny was paid by the lord. In later use historical.

A day's work of unpaid labour due by a vassal to his feudal lord; the whole forced labour thus exacted; in France, extended to the statute labour…

Ploughing done as a service by a tenant for a lord; an instance of this.

in Feudal Law, a service by which a tenant was bound to carry wood felled in the forests to the lord's house (cf. bord-lode, n.).

The action of carrying or conveying something, esp. goods or supplies, from one place to another; transportation. Also occasionally: an instance of…

tenant-service rendered by reaping (see boon, n.1 6).

Feudal service due to someone other than one's immediate overlord. Obsolete.

Some kind of service due by tenants to the feudal superior. Explained in the Law Dictionaries, since Sir J. Skene, as ‘service done by the tenant…

Feudal System. A kind of knight-service, whereby a feudal tenant was bound, when required, to defend the lord's castle; the tenure of such service.

= boon, n.1 6; boon-work.

a day on which crops are harvested; spec. = reap day n. at reap, n.2 compounds.

a day on which feudal tenants (or their servants) were obliged to perform harvest work for the lord of the manor; = bedrip, n. magna precaria, n.

A feudal service; (see quot.) Obsolete.

= bedrip, n.