geneat
Noun
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Noun
geneat (plural geneat)
- (historical) A retainer; vassal; one who holds lands of a superior either by service or payment of rent.
- 1861, C. H. Pearson, Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. 201:
- The tenants, cotsetlas, geburs, and geneats, were the highest among the semiservile.
- 1872, E. W. Robertson, Hist. Ess. 101:
- The right of the husbandman was a share right, his name was Geneat or sharer in the vill.
- 1892, F. Seebohm in Hist. Rev. July 458:
- In each manor there is the same division into land in demesne and land in villainage, the inland and the geneat land.
- 1861, C. H. Pearson, Early & Middle Ages Eng. I. 201:
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