·add. ·- The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
·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
to fee, to winnow : perhaps the same with ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Two short thick pieces of wood, formerly carved like a man's head, having four sheaves in each, one ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. ...
·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. II. Knight...
·pl of Knight bachelor. ...
·pl of Knight banneret. ...
·pl of Knight Templar. ...
·pl of Knight-errant. ...
South out of Little Carter Lane, in Castle Baynard Ward (Horwood, 1799). See Knowle's Court. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·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