watching and warding
Look at other dictionaries:
watch and ward — noun or watching and warding Etymology: Middle English wacche and warde 1. : the act of keeping guard : continuous unbroken vigilance and guard a handful of men kept watch and ward against the Iroquois Francis Parkman 2 … Useful english dictionary
Edward Maria Wingfield — Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward Maria Wingfield , (born 1550 in Stonely, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England; died in 1631) [Date of Birth Burial. Birth: 1550: E150/102, p.3 Exchequer Copy (English), Lists … Wikipedia
Ward — Ward, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper, guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. v[ o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. wards in da[ u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ward penny — Ward Ward, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper, guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. v[ o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. wards in da[ u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Ward staff — Ward Ward, n. [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, masc., keeper, guard; akin to OS. ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. v[ o]r[eth]r a warden, a watch, Goth. wards in da[ u]rawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
burgage — /berr gij/, n. Law. 1. (in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent. 2. (in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return … Universalium
burgage — noun a medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knights service) such as watching and… … Wiktionary
burg|age — «BUR gihj», noun. 1. a system of English land tenure whereby townsmen leased their houses and lands from the king or other lord for a certain yearly rent. 2. a system of Scottish land tenure whereby townsmen lease their houses and lands from the… … Useful english dictionary
burgage — noun Etymology: Middle English, property held by burgage tenure, from Anglo French, from burc, borg town more at bourg Date: 15th century a tenure by which real property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord for a yearly rent… … New Collegiate Dictionary
burgage — [bʉr′gij] n. [ME < OFr bourgage < ML burgagium < LL burgus, castle, fortress < Gmc * burgs: see BOROUGH] a former system of land or property tenure in towns, specif., in England, from an overlord for a yearly rental and, in Scotland,… … English World dictionary
