Definition of Thirlages

1. thirlage [n] - See also: thirlage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirlages

thirdborn
thirdborns
thirdborough
thirdboroughs
thirde
thirded
thirdhand
thirding
thirdings
thirdly
thirdness
thirds
thirdy
thirl
thirlage
thirlages (current term)
thirled
thirling
thirls
thirst
thirst fever
thirst for knowledge
thirsted
thirster
thirsters
thirsteth
thirstier
thirstiest
thirstily
thirstiness

Literary usage of Thirlages

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

1. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"It will readily be conceived that these thirlages must ultimately have become very injurious, ... In towns these thirlages augment the price of the ..."

2. The beauties of Scotland by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"It will readily be conceived that these thirlages must ultimately have become very ... In towns these thirlages augment the price of the necessaries of life ..."

3. The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the by Robert Forsyth (1805)
"After the country became more wealthy, and the construction of mills was better understood, these thirlages or privileged mills, which everywhere existed, ..."

4. Principles of the Law of Scotland by John Erskine, George Moir (1881)
"... (26) the proprietor of that dominant tenement; but where the right of these two thirlages is in the same proprietor, he cannot exact both; Steedman v. ..."

5. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1824)
"But where the owner of a mill has got the right of those two thirlages constituted on different tenements, that individual grain which has already paid the ..."

6. Principles of the Law of Scotland by John Erskine, George Moir, William Guthrie (1870)
"... to the *26* proprietor of that dominant tenement; but where the right of these two thirlages is in the same proprietor, he cannot exact both ..."

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