Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

free warren

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English

Syllables: free war-ren
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The legal right, granted by the crown of England, to own, maintain, and hunt on a piece of land set aside for the keeping and breeding of beasts of warren.

Example Sentences

"Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them ."
"The franchise of free warren is to be claimed only by grant from the crown, or by prescription which supposes such a grant (n); and the effect of it is, to vest in the grantee a property in such wild animals or inferior specieis of game as are deemed to beasts and fowls of warren (0)."
"The defendant has pleaded a warren in gross: he does not make it appendant or appurtenant. He shews merely that Charles I. granted a free warren, as he might do."

Inflected Forms

free warrens (plural)

Questions

What does free warren mean?: The legal right, granted by the crown of England, to own, maintain, and hunt on a piece of land set aside for the keeping and breeding of beasts of warren.

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