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grassum

grassum is the alternative form of gersum.

Meaning of gersum

Noun

gersum (plural gersums)

  1. (historical) A lump sum paid by individuals who take a lease of landed property in England.
    • […]but now it paieth ſeauentie pounds by weight to the King, and an hundred ſhillings for a *Gerſume to the Queene;1610, William Camden, “Northfolke”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […]...

Forms of grassum

pluralgrassums

Questions about grassum

What is grassum the alternative form of?
Grassum is the alternative form of gersum.

Words near grassum in the dictionary

  1. grasstree
  2. Grasstree Hill
  3. grasstrees
  4. grassture
  5. grasstures
  6. grassum
  7. grassums
  8. grassveld
  9. grassvelds
  10. grassward
  11. grasswards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grassum (page history and authors); gersum (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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