manrent

English

Etymology

man +‎ rent?

Noun

manrent (countable and uncountable, plural manrents)

  1. (historical, Scotland) A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
    • 2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640‎, page 25:
      Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.

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