What does tiend mean?

tiend

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Tiends are introduced by Law and Custom, … for Tennents paying a Joint-duty for Stock and Tiend, are not liable for the Tiend (but their Masters are)…"
"In New Luce, Wigtonshire, the free tiends of the parish are already exhausted … the sum modified would more than exhaust the tiend, part being in grain…"
"Ay at the end of seven years, We pay a tiend to hell,"

tiends (plural)

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