单词 | hand-borow |
释义 | † ˈhand-borow Obs. [See borrow n.] lit. ‘hand-pledge’ or security; according to Spelman, Cowell, and their copiers, a name for one (or each) of the nine sureties associated with the headborow in a frank-pledge. (It does not appear where the 16th c. antiquaries got the word, no trace of which has been found in OE. or ME.)
1626Spelman Gloss., Handborowe, in Decuriis seu Friborgis vnus e nouenis est, decimo, quem Headboruw vocant, suppositus. 1672Manley Cowell's Interpr., Hand-borow, A Surety, a manual Pledge, that is, an inferior Undertaker; for Head-borow is a superior or Chief Instrument, Spelm. 1848Wharton Law Lex. s.v. Head-borough, The head boroughs were the chief of the ten pledges, the other nine being denominated hand-borows, or inferior pledges. |

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