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wardcorn

wardcorn noun: a payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.

Noun

wardcorn (uncountable)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.
    • And that the aforesaid Abbess and convent and their successors, and all tenants, residents, and non-residents, and other residents aforesaid, […] be quit through our entire realm of England of all pannage, lestage, […] and of treasure to be drawn away, and of wardpeny, wardcorne, averpeny...1842, George Oliver, Ecclesiastical Antiquities in Devon, page 100
    • and from a rent called wardcorn one quarter, three bushels of barley worth fifteen shillings per year, at the value of five pence the bushel.1989, George Feairheller Deiser, Year Books of Richard II - Volume 12, page 68

Origin of wardcorn

From ward + corn.

Questions about wardcorn

What does wardcorn mean?
Wardcorn means a payment of corn to be offered in commutation of military service.
What part of speech is wardcorn?
Wardcorn is a noun.

Words near wardcorn in the dictionary

  1. Wardak
  2. Wardale
  3. wardapet
  4. wardapets
  5. Wardas
  6. wardcorn
  7. warde
  8. warded
  9. warded off
  10. Wardell
  11. Wardells

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