mainor
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See also: Mainor
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Anglo-Norman meinoure, Old French manuevre. See maneuver and French main (“hand”).
Noun[edit]
mainor (plural mainors)
- (law, UK, obsolete) The act or fact, especially of theft.
- (law, UK, obsolete) A stolen article found on the person of the thief.
- 1821, Anthony Mills, The Ancient Ordinances and Statute Laws of the Isle of Man:
- for the future one credible Witness proveing the Fact, and supported by probable Circumstances, or the Mainor being upon Search or otherwise found with or upon the Malefactor […]
Usage notes[edit]
- A thief was said to be "taken with the mainor" when he was taken with the thing stolen upon him, i.e. in his hands.
References[edit]
- “mainor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.