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knights' fees

knights' fees is the plural of knight's fee.

Meaning of knight's fee

Noun

knight's fee (plural knights' fees)

  1. (historical) A kind of land tenure requiring military service to the land's chief lord as an obligation to maintain possession.
  2. (historical) The specific amount of land giving rise to such requirements generally, being sometimes a hide or less and sometimes six or more hides.

Questions about knights' fees

What is knights' fees the plural of?
Knights' fees is the plural of knight's fee.

Words near knights' fees in the dictionary

  1. knights of the spigot
  2. knights of the thimble
  3. knights of the whip
  4. Knights Templar
  5. Knights Templars
  6. knights' fees
  7. knights-errant
  8. knights-erratic
  9. Knightsbridge
  10. Knightsen
  11. knightship

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