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Maid's fee. A British word signifying a customary fine payable to lords of some manors on marriage of the tenant's daughters, or otherwise on their committing Incontinence. Cowell. … [Read more...] about GWABR MERCHED

A place of execution. Jacob. … [Read more...] about GWALSTOW

Waif, or waived; that which has been stolen and afterwards dropped in the highway for fear of a discovery. Cowell. … [Read more...] about GWAYF

The name of a court which was held every three weeks in the liberty or hundred of Pathbew in Warwick. Jacob. … [Read more...] about GYLPUT

In military law. An Independent body of marauders or armed men, not regularly or organically connected with the armies' of either belligerent who carry on a species of irregular war, chiefly by depredation and massacre. … [Read more...] about GUERILLA PARTY