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All
adjective · 78% connection
The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Approve
verb · 78% connection
To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Approvement
noun · 78% connection
Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Barton
noun · 78% connection
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Bawn
noun · 78% connection
An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Chateau
noun · 78% connection
A manor house or residence of the lord of the manor; a gentleman's country seat; also, particularly, a royal residence; as, the chatea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Chersonese
noun · 78% connection
A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Contenement
noun · 78% connection
That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of lan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Copyhold
noun · 78% connection
a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Demesne
noun · 78% connection
A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Dominus
noun · 78% connection
Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Enclosure
noun · 78% connection
Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Faldage
noun · 78% connection
A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Feud
noun · 78% connection
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Folkland
noun · 78% connection
Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his disc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Ground
noun · 78% connection
Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Hall
noun · 78% connection
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
Heriot
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a ten…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formerly, inclosure, surrounded, mere, homestead.
