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chiefries

chiefries is the plural of chiefrie.

chiefries is the plural of chiefry.

Meaning of chiefrie

Noun

chiefrie (plural chiefries)

  1. (historical, obsolete) A small rent paid to the lord paramount.
    • There are a thousand instances of this all over England, in reserved rents applied to hospitals, in old chiefries, and even among the clergy themselves, in those payments which, I think, they call a modus.May 24 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 42

Meaning of chiefry

Noun

chiefry (plural chiefries)

  1. A rent paid to a chief or supreme lord.
  2. A chief's territory.

Questions about chiefries

What is chiefries the plural of?
Chiefries is the plural of chiefrie.

Words near chiefries in the dictionary

  1. chiefling
  2. chieflings
  3. chiefly
  4. chiefness
  5. chiefrie
  6. chiefries
  7. chiefry
  8. chiefs
  9. chiefs of party
  10. chiefs of police
  11. chiefs of staff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiefries (page history and authors); chiefrie (page history and authors); chiefry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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