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mershet

mershet is the alternative form of merchet.

Meaning of merchet

Noun

merchet (plural merchets)

  1. (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.

Forms of mershet

pluralmershets

Questions about mershet

What is mershet the alternative form of?
Mershet is the alternative form of merchet.

Words near mershet in the dictionary

  1. Merseylea
  2. Merseyside
  3. Merseysider
  4. Merseysiders
  5. mersh
  6. mershet
  7. mershets
  8. Mershon
  9. Mershons
  10. Mersin
  11. Mersina

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mershet (page history and authors); merchet (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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