Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural In law, those annual agricultural products which demand culture, as distinguished from those which grow spontaneously; crops which require annual planting, or, like hops, annual training and culture.
- noun The right to such crops.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Annual
crops produced bycultivation . Emblements are treated as personal property.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1485, from Old French emblayement, emblaiment ("harvest, crop"), from emblaer, emblaier, emblader (French emblaver, "to sow with grain"), from Medieval Latin imblādāre ("to sow with grain"), from im- + blādum (French blé, "grain"), from Frankish *blād (“produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēdaz, *blēdō (“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhlēdh-, *bhlō(w)-, *bhol- (“to flower; leaf”). Cognate with Old High German blāt ("flower, blossom, prosperity"), Middle Dutch blaad ("leaf"), Old English blǣd ("shoot, flower, fruit, harvest, wealth"). More at bloom.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word emblement.
Examples
-
Count Eudo reckoned himself stout enough, and reckoned Eustace was so; but the beauty of Jehane, that stately maid who might uphold a cornice, that still wonder of ivory and gold, was an emblement which he, the tenant, meant to profit by; and so for an hour (two years by the clock) he saw his profit fair.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.