halywercfolk
Meanings
noun
- In Old English law, tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.
Word forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English hāliġ (“holy”) + weorc (“work”) + folc (“folk”).
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