gafolgelder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An Anglo-Saxon householder who owes rent to the king or his grantees rather than to a private landowner.

Word forms

gafolgelder gafolgelders

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English gafolgyldere.

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