Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Ireland, a tax formerly imposed upon tenants for the maintenance of their lord or his men: a custom which required a tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously. See the second quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A kind of
servile tenure inIreland which required thetenant tomaintain hischieftain gratuitously whenever he wished toindulge in arevel .
Etymologies
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Corrupted from sojourn, Scots soirne, sorn.
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