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nountiend (plural tiends)
plural tiends
- alternativeAlternative form of teind.
Ay at the end of seven years, We pay a tiend to hell,
1884, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, part 2, ballad 39A “Tam Lin”, verse 24, page 3422 more examples
Tiends are introduced by Law and Custom, … for Tennents paying a Joint-duty for Stock and Tiend, are not liable for the Tiend (but their Masters are)…
1693, James Viscount of Stair, The Institutions of The Law of Scotland, book 4, title 24 “Petitory Actions for Tiends or Tiend-duties”, page 615In New Luce, Wigtonshire, the free tiends of the parish are already exhausted … the sum modified would more than exhaust the tiend, part being in grain…
1804, February 6, anonymous, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 5, “On Augmentation of Stipends in Victual”, page 48
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