bordage

English

Etymology

Latin bordagium.

Noun

bordage (countable and uncountable; plural bordages)

1. The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.