folkland
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English folcland. Equivalent to folk + land.
Noun[edit]
folkland (countable and uncountable, plural folklands)
- (law, historical, UK) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
- 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution:
- The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.
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References[edit]
- “folkland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.