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gafol-heord

  • noun [ feminine ]
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gafol-heord, e; f. [gafol a tax, heord a herd, flock]
A taxable stock or hive of bees; grex ad censum
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  • Beóceorle gebýreþ, gif he gafolheorde healt, ðæt he sylle ðonne lande gerǽd beo. Mid us is gerǽd ðæt he sylle v sustras huniges to gafole

    it behoves a keeper of bees, if he hold a taxable hive [stock of bees], that he then shall pay what shall be ordered in the country. With us it is ordered that he shall pay five sustras of honey for a tax;

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    bochero, id est, ăpum custōdi, pertĭnet, si gavelheorde, id est, grĕgem ad censum tĕneat, ut inde reddat sīcut ĭbi mos [MS. moris] ĕrit. In quibusdam lŏcis est instĭtūtum, reddi V. [MS. VI] mellis ad censum,'

    • L. R. S. 5
    • ;
    • Th. i. 434, 36-436, 2.
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  • gafol-heord, n.