eric
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eric (plural erics)
- (historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
- The court-poets of Wales […] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
- 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
References[edit]
- OED 2nd edition 1989