Meanings
sulung1
plural sulungs · alternative suling
- historicalA unit of land in medieval Kent, comparable to the hide and the carucate.
The counting of sulungs (as of hides) is a horrible task on which no two scholars agree, and it is not surprising that before the age of the computer Jolliffe made slips and that his desire to find eighty-sulung units sometimes overrode the evidence or the geographical probabilities.
2000, Nicholas Brooks, Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400–1066, →ISBN, page 57
Sulung2
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishsulung
- Englishsulung
Learned borrowing from Old English sulung, from sulh (“plough, ploughland”).
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Latin solinus
- solinusunit of land
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sulung. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sulung
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