to fee, to winnow : perhaps the same with
·noun property; possession; tenure. II. Fee ·noun A right to the use of a superior's land, as a sti...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. ...
·add. ·- The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligatio...
·noun A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to ...
Nonsensical words, supposed in childish story-books to be spoken by giants. I am not to be frighted ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose