burgage

English

WOTD – 17 January 2006

Noun

burgage (countable and uncountable, plural burgages)

  1. (historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
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