burgageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from Middle English burgage, from Old French bourgage and Medieval Latin burgāgium; equivalent to burg +‎ -age.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝɡɪd͡ʒ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜːɡɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

burgage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 burgages)

1. (historical) A medieval tenure in socage under which property in England and Scotland was held under the king or a lord of a town, and was maintained for a yearly rent or for rendering an inferior service (not knight's service) such as watching and warding.
   • 1914, “Lonsdale Hundred (North of the Sands)”, in William Farrer; J. Brownbill, editors, Victoria History of the County of Lancaster‎^[1], volume 8, Constable and Company, page 39:

     Thomas Singleton, bailiff of the escheatery of the town of Lancaster, rendered account in 1441 of £8 4s. 7d. due from ancient rents and various burgages and plats of land which had escheated to the king as duke from various causes.