tolsester

English

Etymology

From Latin tolsestrum. Compare toll (“a tax”).

Noun

tolsester (uncountable)

(law, Britain, obsolete) A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants in exchange for permission to brew and sell ale.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 tolsester in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

otterless

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