reap-silver

English

Noun

reap-silver (uncountable)

(historical) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reap-silver in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

prevailers, reprievals

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