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plough-alms

plough-alms noun: alms levied on ploughs (often on those used between certain dates) or ploughlands.

Noun

plough-alms (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Alms levied on ploughs (often on those used between certain dates) or ploughlands.
    • Another Income aroſe from the Plough, and under the name of Plough-almes: at the firſt it vvas granted by Edvvard the Elder generally, and the valevv vvas a penny upon every plough; and in after times it vvas ordained to be payd fifteen daies after Eaſter.1647, Nath[aniel] Bacon, “Of Church-mens Maintenance amongst the Saxons”, in An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The First Part. From the First Times till the...

Questions about plough-alms

What does plough-alms mean?
Plough-alms means alms levied on ploughs (often on those used between certain dates) or ploughlands.
What part of speech is plough-alms?
Plough-alms is a noun.

Words near plough-alms in the dictionary

  1. plough the sands
  2. plough through
  3. plough under
  4. plough up
  5. plough with one's heifer
  6. plough-alms
  7. plough-bote
  8. plough-botes
  9. plough-man
  10. plough-men
  11. plough-tree

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