husbandland

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husbandland (plural husbandlands)

  1. (historical) The landholding of a husbandman, that is, a manorial tenant.
    • 1988, Edward Miller, “Social Structure: Northern England”, in H. E. Hallam, editor, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes 2, 1042–1350, →ISBN, page 698:
      The complexity of a man’s relationship to lord and neighbour is well illustrated by a grant of land at Dilston in Northumberland to Geoffrey de Cokeside 1339. He received a husbandland (probably of 25 acres) to hold at will for 30s. yearly, a more or less economic rent.
  2. (historical) A unit of land corresponding to a single farmstead; around 26 acres.