sorehon
English
Etymology
Corrupted from sojourn, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots soirne, sorn.
Noun
sorehon (uncountable)
- (historical) A kind of servile tenure in Ireland which required the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sorehon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)