trithing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriðing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”).
Noun[edit]
trithing (plural trithings)
- (historical) a riding (one of three ancient divisions of a county in England)
- 1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England[1], volume 1, page 116:
- Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.
Derived terms[edit]
- riding (“administrative division”), trithing-mote, trithing-reeve
References[edit]
- “trithing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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