Crossword-Solution: BORDAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bordar | n. | A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BORDAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| smallholder who held cottage in return for menial work | 1 answer |
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Sentences with BORDAR (5)
Law) Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
There Walter, a man of [the lord] Geoffrey Alselin's has 1 plough and 22 villeins and 7 bordars [a bordar had a cottage and a small amount land in return for supplying small provisions to his lord] having 5 ploughs and 5 serfs and 1 female serf and 40 acres of meadow.
The cottar, the bordar, and the labourer were bound to help in the work of the home-farm throughout the year.
Law) Defn: Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table.
While the bordar, or cottager, was resident in the manor more or less on sufferance, the villein was there of right, and was in that sense the superior of the bordar.