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Definition of Gebur

1. a tenant-farmer [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gebur

Literary usage of Gebur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and by Frederic Seebohm (1905)
"V. THE DOUBLE AND ANCIENT CHARACTER OP THE SERVICES OF THE gebur ... to the services of the gebur, stress must be laid upon their double character. ..."

2. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"goods, again, go to the lord at his death.1 With the gebur of our manor we may compare the ceorl of a Hampshire estate, described in another old writing ..."

3. The Ancient Laws of Wales: Viewed Especially in Regard to the Light They by Hubert Lewis (1889)
"—Evidence in Favour of these Assumptions.—English Rules as to Strangers. —Settlement of the gebur.—Different classes of Villeins mentioned by old writers. ..."

4. The Domesday Inquest by Adolphus Ballard (1906)
"When a new gebur was established, it was the custom of his lord to furnish ... And from this Mr. Seebohm has argued that the usual holding of a gebur was a ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"But the gebur himself is not a full freeman because he has services to perform on the lord's demesne and cannot leave the land if he chooses. ..."

6. The Old English Manor: A Study in English Economic History by Charles McLean Andrews (1892)
"land with its seven acres of sown wheat the gebur was allowed, for the stocking of his allotment, two oxen, a cow and two sheep. ..."

7. The Growth of the Manor by Sir Paul Vinogradoff (1905)
"Besides, the gebur has to do additional ploughing work of different kinds—to plough one acre a week in the autumn, three acres as ..."

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