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Avercorn :: Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers..

Vavasor :: Vavasor (n.) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron..

Lieutenant :: Lieutenant (n.) An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty..

Tenemental :: Tenemental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.

Terrier :: Terrier (n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like..

Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..

Conventionary :: Conventionary (a.) Acting under contract; settled by express agreement; as, conventionary tenants..

Coshering :: Coshering (n.) A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house.

Disgavel :: Disgavel (v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

Stadtholderate :: Stadtholder (n.) Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province..

Feudatory :: Feudatory (n.) A tenant or vassal who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service; the tenant of a feud or fief.

Customary :: Customary (a.) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..

Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house..

Warn :: Warn (v. t.) To make ware or aware; to give previous information to; to give notice to; to notify; to admonish; hence, to notify or summon by authority; as, to warn a town meeting; to warn a tenant to quit a house..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..

Occupation :: Occupation (n.) The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant..

Undertenant :: Undertenant (n.) The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.

Tenant Saw :: Tenant saw () See Tenon saw, under Tenon..

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