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gafolgelders

gafolgelders is the plural of gafolgelder.

Meaning of gafolgelder

Noun

gafolgelder (plural gafolgelders)

  1. (historical) An Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.
    • And if the services had stopped here, we might have concluded that the ‘ceorls’ of Hysseburne were gafolgelders, and not serfs.1883, Frederic Seebohm, “Manors and Serfdom under Saxon Rule”, in The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of...

Questions about gafolgelders

What is gafolgelders the plural of?
Gafolgelders is the plural of gafolgelder.

Words near gafolgelders in the dictionary

  1. gafiates
  2. gafiating
  3. gafiation
  4. gafiations
  5. gafolgelder
  6. gafolgelders
  7. gafs
  8. Gafsa
  9. gafty
  10. gag
  11. gag a buzzard off a gut wagon

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