multure

plural multures

1. countableuncountableA grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.

   Synonyms: milling

2. ScotlandcountablehistoricaluncountableA toll paid to a miller, mill-owner etc., generally in kind, for grinding corn or pulverizing ore.

   MULTURE, n. [L. molitura.] 1. In Scottish law, the toll or emolument given to the proprietor of a mill for grinding corn. 2. A grist or grinding.

   1830, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language: Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words, Sherman Converse, page 546

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   […] quantity reserved for seed and stock. Sometimes an agreement was in operation known as dry multure, by which tenants conceded a part of their grain for the privilege of going to the market with the rest. A third species was known as the thirlage of invecta et illata, existing in most of the burghs of Scotland, by which corn, wherever grown, if brought for consumption within the […]

   1963, James Edmund Handley, The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland, Burns, page 155

   Synonyms: emolument

present singular third person multures · participle present multuring · participle past multured · past multured

1. ScotlandhistoricaltransitiveTo charge a multure on.